Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:29:25 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <87fv38bkvu.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: <862181686462048382.178035peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <876145d6qr.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87r3msbxpy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20150824164135.ac9fe5104ebe6547b18f6cad@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="017616aa25f81ec581c44d76d61ba2f3"; logging-data="17086"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ZEsEKUBAh422XOqO4NJwrTJq2SMf1pBA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:FWIU/UMdelqCx4BEb4zFYuE6we4= sha1:aJVQS9IYn0J1mL+/1533OtwzLNI= X-BSB-Auth: 1.8000c9a30d0f2ed38596.20150824192925BST.87fv38bkvu.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:150305 comp.misc:8493 Ahem A Rivet's Shot writes: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:09 +0100 > Ben Bacarisse wrote: > >> Andy Burns writes: >> >> > Huge wrote: >> > >> >> Word is (or at least was) a straight port of the Xerox Document >> >> Editor from the Star Workstation. Charles Simonyi wrote both of them. >> > >> > He also inflicted reverse Hungarian notation on variable names. >> >> Never heard it called that before. There's apps Hungarian and systems >> Hungarian, but not, to my knowledge, reverse Hungarian. > > Hungarian notation is using variable names like int_counter, > string_name (type prefix) so reverse Hungarian, I assume, would be > counter_int and name_string (type suffix). Both are hideous. But does such a thing exist, other than as a speculative meaning for the term? I ask because I like to know what people actually do. I'm not so much interested in what meaning could reasonably be ascribed to the name. -- Ben.