XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: nikke.karlsson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-05, rbowman  wrote:   
   >   
   > You can really blame Microsoft for creating MFC; they had to wrap their C   
   > API in something. You can blame them for DDE/OLE/COM, the ATl, and   
   > adopting Hungarian notation.   
      
   (I assume you meant "can't really blame" at the beginning there?)   
      
   Time to dip into the quotes file again:   
      
      Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code   
      obfuscation techniques.   
                          -- Roedy Green   
      
   Niklas   
   --   
   My main argument against autonomous probes is what alien cultures   
   would think us if the got hold of a deep-space probe running Windows 7.   
   Their anthropologists might enjoy the paradox of a civilisation   
   being able to get off the planet with such software. -- Bernd Felsche   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)