Re: Warp: RSS Package Manager

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Eugene Zolenko
<EugeneZolenko-XYgkjQFSZqy1Z/[email protected]> wrote:
>
[snip lot's of stuff I agree with]

> Only thing I use from it (or maybe it is from MFC?) is m_ on class
> members. Because it is nice to see external to the local scope variables
> right away.

Agree. And I also do it for GUI element variables. Mostly because I'd
like to find them faster in the popup menu in the IDE, but also
because in e.g. GTK, almost all GUI variables are of type GtkWidget.


> And another one is a freaking cargo
> cult, brought to you by same kind of managers who like to count
> productivity by LOC and all the fun stuff.

I can sort of understand the main reasoning behind it when I see the
crap that Win32 C++ developers has to put up with. *shrugs*. Something
as trivial as strings is so overly complicated that it can make the
most talented developer start to cry.

It's an ugly solution to an even uglier problem and I hate to see it
imposed on sane systems or sane languages.

> Joel (can't remember last name, FogBugz owner), had a rant about it on
> his blog.

Joel Spolsky, and this is the rant:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

It's about web apps, but the main idea holds for "normal" apps too.

-Isak

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