[gmx-developers] no delimiters in file names from 5.0?

[Mark Abraham]

On Nov 28, 2013 11:20 PM, "Erik Lindahl" <erik.lindahl at scilifelab.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 28 Nov 2013, at 23:03, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, transition-marking is useful. Camel case is not perfect either,
> >> because now you have to wonder where to capitalise stuff like
> >> PPPMELoadBalancing...
> >
> > Yeah, I find that quite annoying and because of this I can't even
> > argue that we should write a script and change back everything to
> > underscores because p_p_p_m_e_load_balancing is not much better. :)
>
> If you promise not to tell anybody I said this, for once I actually think
_microsoft_ of all companies came up with a good standard for this case :-)
>
> The MS standard is apparently that 2-letter acronyms are all-capital
(e.g. IO), but anything 3 letters or longer is camelcased. Might not always
be super-beautiful, but it’s a simple standard that makes it trivial to
remember how to write things.

Awesome. PPPmeLoadBalancing :-P Ima go write some F77 now, after I throw up!

The original Hungarian notation from M/S is actually quite good, though how
it got used in practice is fairly deplorable.

Mark

>
> Cheers,
>
> Erik
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