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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Quality and Style book discussion ("_Type" suffix)
Date: 17 Nov 2005 06:03:15 -0800
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Brian May wrote:
> It was decided that it helped if you were reminded what type the
> variable is whenever you go to use it.
...
> However, sometimes it still helps to add a type prefix/postfix to a variable

Actually, this second use is what Hungarian notation was
intended to be. It was bastardized into the useless first form
by people who didn't understand what they were doing.

See <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Wrong.html>.