[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Mar 7 13:30:05 CET 2010



On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> On Sunday 07 March 2010 12:19:55 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
>>> BTW there is tguiapplication.registersyseventhandler() in order to hook
>>> into Windows and X11 messages.
>>
>> The unreadable names (all lowercase) make it impossible to me to have
>> any closer look at msegui.
>>
> Interresting.
> I changed my Pascal conding style three times in the last 25 years, the last
> time about 10 years ago. It seems for me the optimum of productivity and
> readability is reached.

For you, yes. I agree with Hans-Peter Diettrich...

> I write all lowercase exactly because all lowercase has the best readability
> for me. With camelcase style a symbol breaks into sub-symbols for me which
> can't be recognised and processed as fast by my brain.

I don't think that you can credit the lowercase letters for your increased
productivity. It's simply 25 years of programming experience.

If I look at code I wrote 12 years ago, I now see all the things I did wrong; 
and I used CamelCase all the time. So the point is not in the casing.

Michael.




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