Agreed. I think it is pretty clear that there are trade-offs between
choosing identifiers that are mnemonic versus making them neutral, and
different people will weigh those trade-offs differently, so there will
never be full consensus on which approach is best.
David
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 08:2
Was posted, and comments appreciated.
Was my comment posted about English being the standard language in aviation?
--- Joanne
On Jun 23, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Bob Futrelle wrote:
> There is a spectrum here, from black to white. A house number, 223 Main
> Street, is rather opaque,, whereas "The t
There is a spectrum here, from black to white. A house number, 223 Main
Street, is rather opaque,, whereas "The third house west of the southwest
corner of Main and Jones" is less opaque.
A real challenge is Japan, where the house addresses are numbered in the
order in which the houses were const
Hi Sivaram,
Identifiers, whether opaque or not, hold meaning when they identify some
thing (or things) - otherwise they do not serve their intended purpose.
Where there is disagreement is in terms of the syntax of the identifier. Some
want to incorporate language mnemonic and others use an alp
