What is TheLOP and what is its purpose?
• THELOP is a language used for naming functions (methods). Thelop consists of a dictionary and rules. The dictionary gives the words and their meanings. The rules tell us how to build names from the words. The goals are consistent and complete APIs, readable programs, to ease learning, to ease reuse and to ease CodeHarvesting especially in a multi library, multi project source pool situation. So it is a set of rules that does the same job as hungarian notation • BTW to write “TheLOP” is IMO not quite ok. Although LOP and THELOP are tightly connected, THELOP stands for “THE Language Of Programming” and not for “THE LanguageOrientedProgramming”. Any number of LOP languages might evolve, but it would make more sense to let Thelop grow and change according to a community consensus. The name implies the vision of a future standard strong enough to move the software world away fom proprietary APIs. It is a vision for simplicity and a vision against market dominance.
