Alright, I''m reading all of these arguments as to whether Hungarian Notation should be used but I have an interesting question... Why is it called Hungarian Notation in the first place? Knowing spoken Hungarian and a little written Hungarian, I don''t see the correlation. Verbs are nouns are both conjugated, believe it or not, according to vowels therein. Also, these conjugations affect the verb/noun SUFFIX, not prefix. There are prefixes for certain words like "with" and "in" but not for adjectives. Thusly, true Hungarian notation would go something like this: int value_87 = 87; //it contains 87, so call it value_87 class myClassILC // contains an int, a long and a char { public: int num_m_mcILC; // m_mcILC = member of myClassILC long quantity_m_mcILC; char letter_m_mcILC; }; Worse yet, it could REALLY be based on the vowels therein... int Corporate_Data_ooaeaa; char Im_Sure_You_Get_The_Picture_ueoueiue; (Not how it''s actually done in Hungarian but it''s kind of hard to conjugate English words Hungarianish-ly) Frankly, we should all stop arguing over it and be happy that coding doesn''t look like either example. -Goku SANE Productions Homepage

quote: Original post by Goku705

Alright, I''m reading all of these arguments as to whether Hungarian Notation should be used but I have an interesting question...

Why is it called Hungarian Notation in the first place?

Because the creater of it, Charles Simonyi, was Hungarian .



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I thought my physics professor in college used a HP calculator that used Hungarian Notation for input back when Microsoft was a game company writing flight simulators for Apple, but according to this I must be wrong. Then again, this is the company that claims to be personally responsible for the entire computer revolution.

Are you sure you''re not thinking of Reverse-Polish Notation? =)

Also, I don''t believe that Microsoft ever wrote any games. In fact, nearly every major piece of software Microsoft puts out was acquired. From DOS to Word to Flight Simulator.

Hehe, I guess that is it. I guess I should have read the page I linked to. I''ve been reading too many math books and playing with Mathematica too much lately. I immediately assumed a mathematical notation.

Merlin9x9: Could be that too! Polish (and possibly Czech) is the only other language that is anything like Hungarian so it''s not too big a surprise.

Anyways, it''s pretty stupid to name the notation after the birthplace of it''s creator. I realize Simonyi (pronounced Shee-mun-yee) Notation would suck as a name but they could have come up with something else.


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yeah, it''s almost kind of racist in the way of making a point about the person''s race. It would be like saying African American Notation. Apparently the guy didn''t mind though


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