Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Karlsson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Naughty =?UTF-8?Q?C=E2=99=AF?= Date: 5 Jan 2026 18:08:21 GMT Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 20 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> X-Trace: individual.net h2LycXDvaZH+FtOoKMVUQwiHTV8jClBR2iaAEbj7JJ7/YFKxKh Cancel-Lock: sha1:tvorSpBaU0rrmo0YdQa8qaYoOJc= sha256:xMOFg1m7QFK377DsFh070SqkE1HLAMK+lH7rghf6CKQ= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80519 alt.folklore.computers:233196 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 Niklas -- My main argument against autonomous probes is what alien cultures would think us if the got hold of a deep-space probe running Windows 7. Their anthropologists might enjoy the paradox of a civilisation being able to get off the planet with such software. -- Bernd Felsche