<story><title>Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lalaithion</author><text>Most modern typed languages support encoding this information in the type of the variable, so that the compiler catches it, instead of in the variable name. Alexis King wrote a blog post about it that reached the front page a few days ago. 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;parse-don-t-validate&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;parse-don-t-va...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish2</author><text>SMALL BRAIN: Hungarian notation is stupid and just duplicates the work of the type system&lt;p&gt;NORMAL BRAIN: Systems Hungarian may be silly, but Apps Hungarian has some merit&lt;p&gt;GALAXY BRAIN: Apps Hungarian is stupid and just duplicates the work of the type system</text></comment>
<story><title>Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lalaithion</author><text>Most modern typed languages support encoding this information in the type of the variable, so that the compiler catches it, instead of in the variable name. Alexis King wrote a blog post about it that reached the front page a few days ago. 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;parse-don-t-validate&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;parse-don-t-va...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>Very interesting, thanks for the link. Also, another instance of the word &amp;quot;cromulent&amp;quot; cropping up! Springfield teachers would be proud of their feat.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;words-at-play&amp;#x2F;what-does-cromulent-mean&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&amp;#x2F;words-at-play&amp;#x2F;what-does-crom...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Edit: Add link)</text></comment>