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On 06 Jan 1996 10:39:00 +0100, Joachim Durchholz (jhd@herold.franken.de) wrote:
: andy@wndrwrks.demon.co.uk wrote 05.01.96 on Re: Hungarian notation:
: >
: >         someProc(MyString)
: >         someProc(pszMyString)
: 
: This example does not occur in real life. Or rather, it better should not!
: Anybody using meaningless names like "MyString" should be thrown out of  
: the programming business. Depending on the actual semantics of "someProc",  
: the parameter should be called "Message" or "Options" or "ParserInput" or  
: whatever.

   Not necessarily.  True, there are application functions that deal with
application objects, but there are also utility functions that deal with
generic objects.  Consider:

    void stripTrailingWhiteSpace(string &aString);

-- 
    Nearly every electrical engineer believes deep in his heart that he
is better at writing computer software than any computer programmer,
and can show as proof the fact that he has written a number of small
applications, each of which was done quickly, easily, and exactly met
his needs.