IConvention

discussion.

snippets:
Get rid of the "I". Also you C++ programmers should get rid of the "m_" and you DAO fans should get rid of the DAO suffix. All these annotations put up a barrier to being able to "read" the code. When I read ICommand I feel like there is something missing, like I Command you to take out the garbage. When I see the C++ programmers "m_" I find myself humming while I read the code mmmmm counter, mmmmm index, mmmmm transmitter, mmmm window. Was the programmer really happy and humming, or were they confused and not sure what variable name to use? Probably the latter. Ohhh. a member variable, that is something special.

Well-written code (small classes, small methods, clear separation of responsibilities) has no need of Hungarian notation. What makes code readable is its approximation of natural language - Hungarian notation degrades that.

The second and bigger one is, the example you give is flawed. If you hose to turn your ICommand interface to a base class, then renaming isn't going to be the issue (as it can all be done by Resharper or equivalent in a few seconds at most). The problem is that many classes implementing your ICommand interface could now be very broken due to C# not supporting MI - so anything that has a base class already isn't going to work... and now you have a massive architectural nightmare.

Java has "extends" and "implements" which communicates very well on what the class inherits. C# doesn't have that, instead it uses the convention that if you inherit from more than one thing, the first must be a class and there can only be one class.

I think we have a mixture between:
- C# does not support multiple inheritance
- java's syntax is more explicit than C#'s
- The programmers need a language closed to the domain, (DSL),
the hungarian notation stays in the way.
- What we want is compiler-checked DuckTyping

I really want to learn Eiffel, to see if it delivers the answers, so shiny presented in
EiffelSoftware's presentations:
- multiple inheritance
- very close to Domain Language