Re: [NTLK] OT: Email "abbreviations(?)" or WTF?!

From: Jim Anderson (jiman_at_microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 14:05:51 EST


Jim Witte wrote:
> And they're programmers also inculcated with the=20
> rather horrid Hungarian notation, so you get such strange type=20
> declarations as (lpszDeviceName where a simple DeviceName, or=20
> DeviceNamePtr would do just fine).

<semi-tongue-in-cheek>
        Now, now, I *like* Hungarian notation. Of course, I work at M$,
so there is the whole issue of my programming preferences being
controlled by a brain implant... However, before I adopted Hungarian
notation (which I used long before I hired onto M$), I spent a bunch of
time dealing with crap like "what type is DeviceNamePtr? Where the hell
is it declared, so that I can find it?". It's not an evil plot, it's
just a C coding convention.
</semi-tongue-in-cheek>

Jim Anderson

Evil Overlord Rule 90:
I will not design my Main Control Room so that every workstation is
facing away from the door.

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