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Re: Check for redundancy


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Check for redundancy
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:12:27 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> 
> > On 2015-06-26, at 17:01, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> >
> >> Hungarian notation is a joke. [...]

[...]

> Hungarian notation was used a lot in early programs using the MS Windows API.

AFAIR (yes, I'm an old fart) Hungarian notation was introduced at Microsoft
(by Charles Simonyi, no less) because their C compiler was abysmal at type
checking.

Yes, the API sucked too. Possibly it still sucks (since times Windows 3.1
I haven't had to look at it, thanfully)

Regards
- -- tomás
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