2008/5/23 <paul at clubi.ie>:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, fuzzix wrote:
>>> Aye, billions of Hungarian forint (still can't see that word without
>> thinking for (int i=0;...)).
>> Ah, and there was me thinking he was angry at MS for their awful notation.
Joel Spolsky has a very interesting article[1] on this, wherein he
reveals that there were (are?) two dialects of Hungarian notation in
Microsoft, Apps Hungarian and Systems Hungarian. Apps was invented by
Charles Simonyi for Word, and then the Systems guys perverted it and
used it for the Win32 API, leading to the awful and uselessly long
Hungarian that we have known to despise through any contact we've had
with the Win32 API or its thrice-damned successors.
Cheers,
Josh
[1] http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
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