[PRL] Joel on Software - Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

Paul A. Steckler steck at stecksoft.com
Fri May 13 01:35:52 EDT 2005


> Simonyi just meant "nominal type", and the systems guys 
> preempted it and substituted "structural type" (which in 
> their impoverished type system, is about the same as "storage class").

The slogan for this might be, "Hungarian notation is 
nominal typing in name only".  I think there's about
three levels of punning in that, but I've lost count.

-- Paul




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