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From: mcc@thunder.watson.ibm.com (Mark Chu-Carroll)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/16
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Date: 1996-05-16T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4ndb2j$1p0q@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Even imporant projects at Microsoft do not use Hungarian notation:
>
>"Cutler (Mr VMS/NT) and his team reject Hungarian. This pleased Wood, who
>called Hungarian "the stupidest thing I'd ever seen." "
> 
>-- From NT project reflection book: Showstopper! by G Pascal Zachary, pg 56.
>
>Hungarian notation is just another idiotic established concepts
>thriving in the computer science field. Isn't CS wonderful?  I point
>my finger at the totally inattentive and spaced-out
>software-incompetent clowns in CS academia.

Before you get too smug in your anti-academic sneering, you might want
to consider the fact that hungarian notation is almost entirely an
*industrial* practice. In my experience, virtually all of those
academics that you're so busy sneering at think that hungarian naming
is an incredibly foolish idea.

The current vogue for hungarian naming was started by Microsoft, and
has propogated mainly through the use of Microsoft software
development products. Current academic thought on software development
and engineering tends to stress formal design, and a high level of
abstraction - which is directly counter to the currently popular
variant of hungarian naming.

	<MC>
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