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0 pointsMagnumOpus6y ago0 comments

> So where is the flaw in my thinking

The codebase has 34 years worth of code written already, 100 million LOC or more if you count Office, VS etc. The cost of typechecking is trivial but the cost of rewriting this much code to be consistent with any new convention is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This legacy cost then of course becomes higher every year...

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tempguy99996y ago

Oh hell. Where did I say anything about it having to be rewritten? I did not. I said "allowed the hungarian prefixes to be dropped", not required. And all I meant was "in subsequent work", of course changing existing code would be idiotic.

And this absolutely misses the vital point that typechecking can be offloaded from the human to an automated typechecker, so why wasn't it?

"The cost of typechecking is trivial" - not if it's done by humans.

inlined6y ago

I’ll do it for only 50 million dollars. Remove it with repeated regexes like s/^wec//g (remove all word prefixes for element counts). Of course, you’ll need another convention for all the collisions that Hungarian notation fixes like IFoo (Foo’s test fake-able interface) and CFoo (the concrete class)

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