XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 5 Jan 2026 18:08:21 GMT, Niklas Karlsson wrote:   
      
   > 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?)   
      
   What can I say? I'm still getting my blood caffeine level up to snuff.   
      
      
   > Time to dip into the quotes file again:   
   >   
   >    Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code   
   >    obfuscation techniques.   
   >                        -- Roedy Green   
      
   When I was toying with Java in the late '90s Green's website was a   
   valuable resource. One day I somehow managed to wander from the Java pages   
   to those concerning some of his other interests. Let's just say I learned   
   more than I really wanted to know.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)