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From: priest@sfu.ca (David Priest)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/14
Message-ID: <4naa1b$lh4@morgoth.sfu.ca>#1/1
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references: <4adem2$b5s@mercury.IntNet.net> <4ahka7$o9m@inrou.erno.de>
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organization: Simon Fraser University
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 comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 1996-05-14T00:00:00+00:00
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mcrogerm@stjohn.sju.ac.th (Roger Merritt) writes:
>Franz.Kruse@erno.de (Franz Kruse) wrote:
>>Could someone please post an article describing Hungarian Notation in some detail
>>and giving examples?
>>Thanks,
>
>If you can get the book Code Complete from Microsoft Press (can't
>remember the author) he describes the coding method in detail. It was
>devised by a super-programmer at Microsoft (originally at PARC) named
>Semonyi (if my memory is correct) who was Hungarian.
>
>The book I mentioned is a fairly good one on the methodology of
>designing software, but I thought it was far too long and contained
>far too few code examples.

Code Complete, by Steve McConnell.  If Microsoft only took McConnell's 
programming recommendations to heart, they'd have much less buggy code.  
I, frankly, worship this book: it was to-the-point and backed up many of 
his recommendations with hard-core statistical proof of the efficacy of 
the technique.  Liked it so much that I wrote myself a point-form summary 
of it, to make quick-referencing even that much quicker (and, no, it's 
not available to others; go buy the book yourself).

I also thought Code Complete did a nice job of definitively proving why 
one should not choose C/C++ as a programming language...