22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
4:18 p.m.
On 22 Nov 2011 at 15:20, Eric Smith wrote:
Note that what most people practice as "Hungarian
Notation" is *NOT*
what Simonyi suggested. Simonyi's idea had some merit, but a bunch of
people that didn't actually understand it popularized the idea of
simply trying to abbreviate the raw data type names while conveying no
useful semantic information. The Wikipedia article describes the
difference between the two. Simonyi's practice is now called "Apps
Hungarian", while the more common but totally useless kind is called
"Systems Hungarian".
I would've called it "Microsoft Hungarian". :)
--Chuck