XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com   
      
   On 1/5/26 22:25, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > Niklas Karlsson wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > Agreed. The only warts I use are:   
   >   
   >      m_      A class member. But I often make an accessor function   
   >              without the "m_"   
   >      sm_     A static class member.   
   >      c_      A constant, not in a class..   
   >   
      
   I thought that all stopped 15-20 years ago when IDEs introduced auto   
   colouring.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)