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descriptive names?

kvh · 2001-06-26T11:16:48

the post 'do you comment?' reminded me of this site i found when i was learning some WinSock, www.vijaymukhi.com just thought i'd share it with the rest of the world there's some interesting articles on it, but here's a random extract for the 'i-don't-need-to-comment-cause-i-can-read-code-like-i-read-english' guys: #include <windows.h> #include<stdio.h> WNDCLASS a; long _stdcall zzz(); HWND b; MSG c; HDC h; _stdcall WinMain(HINSTANCE i, HINSTANCE j, char *k, int l) { a.hInstance = i; a.lpszClassName = "Hi" ; a.lpfnWndProc = zzz; a.hbrBackground = GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH); a.hCursor = LoadCursor(0,IDC_CROSS); RegisterClass(&a); b=CreateWindow("Hi","Bye",WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,1,100,200,300,0,0,i,0); ShowWindow(b,1); while(GetMessage(&c,0,0,0)) DispatchMessage(&c); } long _stdcall zzz(UINT w, UINT x, UINT y, long z) { if (x = = WM_LBUTTONDOWN) { h = GetDC(w); LineTo(h,LOWORD(z),HIWORD(z)); LineTo(h,LOWORD(z),HIWORD(z)); ReleaseDC(w,h); } if (x = = WM_DESTROY) PostQuitMessage(0); return DefWindowProc(w,x,y,z); } this is part of a tutorial and not some obfuscated c contest, i did not change the formatting in any way, frightening isn't it? looks like he even writes books on Java, C#,... there's even some kind of methodology he uses, variables get 1 letter, functions get 3, all in alphabetical order, simple, but effective hmm, just hope i never get to work with this guy Edited by - kvh on June 21, 2001 11:56:05 AM

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Started by kvh June 21, 2001 10:53 AM

10 comments, last by kvh 22 years, 10 months ago

Beer Hunter

712

June 25, 2001 08:07 PM

Of course, descriptive variable names are very important. If you referred to the characters in a novel only by their initials, never mentioning their full name, people would have great difficulty.

GayleSaver

122

June 26, 2001 11:16 AM

I would venture to presume this programmer writes mathematical functions. Unfortunately, defining mathematical relationships is only a small fraction (however important) of the big picture of programming.

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