Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Naughty =?UTF-8?B?Q+KZrw==?= Date: 5 Jan 2026 20:32:09 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10j9a1l$1toj$1@gal.iecc.com> <10j9vvr$23cp$2@gal.iecc.com> <10jb0is$172cb$2@dont-email.me> <679q2mx7o4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10jduat$22c54$1@dont-email.me> <10jelfq$2apo7$4@dont-email.me> <10jg8sg$2pmmq$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XOeHi7tV3xYZMxhz2z7B6Q9rhB2r8LHOH7S9mo3Nca+nMlJl1Y Cancel-Lock: sha1:ps1M+vDU38jCxrzUxgx3/ESsQWc= sha256:1f5Daeja3V/V5DlBOcZnRdnIMjIcI0J/dAfQO4QL308= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80534 alt.folklore.computers:233211 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.