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From: stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Slander (was: Hungarian notation)
Date: 1996/05/24
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Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:

: It is worth noting that the first time I saw the idea of systematically
: using prefixes written down was in a Xerox CSL ("blue and white") report
: which I read in 1984.  I no longer recall the title or authors or when
: it was written, but I think it may have come out of some of the early
: Mesa work.  

I believe the originator of "Hungarian notation" at Microsoft had earlier
worked at Xerox PARC, so there may be a connection...

: Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.

-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Cambridge, MA  USA