Coding standard: Prefixing variables to indicate datatype

[Peter Hansen]

David LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> Charles Semonie (sp?) said he rued the day he ever even thought of
> "hungarian" notation, let alone foisted it upon an unsuspecting developer
> world.

It's "Simonyi", and although I've found many web pages expressing
a dislike of the notation, I haven't been able to find any references
to Simonyi himself expressing any regret.  Can you point me to one?

> Plain and simple it's bad programming practice. Among other things, it
> encourages bad names for variables and focuses more on the data's type then
> it's use.

Agreed!

-Peter