Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Yorick de Wid wrote:
> From: Yorick de Wid <yorickdewid@users.noreply.github.com>
> 
> There is no need to need to name Microsoft. The point is clear without that context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index 98227226c4e..5608ed2931f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -306,8 +306,7 @@ that counts the number of active users, you should call that
>  
>  Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian
>  notation) is asinine - the compiler knows the types anyway and can check
> -those, and it only confuses the programmer. No wonder Microsoft makes buggy
> -programs.
> +those, and it only confuses the programmer.

I'm not opposed to this, but it'd be nice to distinguish between Systems
Hungarian (which is what this paragraph is correctly excoriating) and
Apps Hungarian (which is actually useful and we should do more of):

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/