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authorYorick de Wid <yorickdewid@users.noreply.github.com>2021-02-08 18:04:48 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-02-11 19:42:17 +0300
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docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
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> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208150447.87104-1-ydewid@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -323,8 +323,7 @@ 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.
LOCAL variable names should be short, and to the point. If you have
some random integer loop counter, it should probably be called ``i``.