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On 6/12/11 3:53 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> [...]
> IIRC the original MS C compilers (along with other pre-ANSI C compilers,
> I should add) weren't nearly as good as their rivals, such as Borland C,
> so I've always wondered if the use of HN was introduced as a way of
> forcing the programmer cover for compiler deficiencies in reporting data
> type mismatches.

Whatever you might think of Hungarian notation _or_ Microsoft, since it 
was invented by Charles Simonyi _before_ he ever was entertaining the 
idea of being a Microsoft employee, it is ridiculous to suggest that the 
convention was invented in order to gloss over "deficiencies" in 
Microsoft's compiler, real or imagined.