XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Pancho wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I don't use an IDE. Just vim and build scripts like make and   
   Meson.   
      
   Vim has syntax highlighting, and I've added a ton of my own key   
   words to ~/.vim/after/syntax.   
      
   What IDEs auto-color tokens based on whether they are class   
   members or not?   
      
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