[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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