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From: tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/27
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Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> wrote:

>for its edification.   So far, I have seen no one cite the origins of
>Hungarian notation.  It is not, as some have suggested, the product of an
>academic enviornment.

I've cited it, and in fact it is the product of an academic
environment: it was the subject of Simonyi's doctoral thesis.
Granted, it did spread [only?] because of his influence at Microsoft
(by way of Petzold, and later MFC).

= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent