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Article #4451Re: Hungarian Notation
From: James THIELE
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 15:51
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 15:51
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In article <90254.1747...@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> KPUR...@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes: >It was a notation that by working from a set of rules enabled programmers >to independently come up with the same identifier names. The names were >almost unpronoucable (and as the inventor was a Hungarian, hence the notation's >name and he also worked for Microsoft). Charles Simonyi, who still works for Microsoft. And it is possible to pronounce the names. >[Some remembered Hungarian conventions deleted.] >If you have any info, post it then we all get the benefit! Simonyi did a thesis which was published as a Xerox PARC tech report sometime in the seventies (76? 78?) which has a description of his original notation. There is a description of a subset of Simonyi's concept in "Programming Windows", (page 32-33, first edition) by Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press ISBN 0-914845-91-8. James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!microsoft!jamesth From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Hungarian Notation Message-ID: <57403@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 90 15:51:08 GMT References: <90254.174745KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 21 Posted: Thu Sep 13 16:51:08 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit