On Saturday, 1 June 2013 at 22:16:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The sad thing is that we got hungarian notation due to a
misunderstanding. The
original idea was actually quite good. This article explains
what happened as
well as the original idea (which _is_ worth using):
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
Interesting read. A question: I'd assume that with modern
languages it'd be possible to achieve much or all (or more) of
the safety created by "Apps Hungarian" by using an appropriately
crafted type system. E.g. to take one example from that article,
create a SafeString type which is guaranteed to contain properly
encoded text.
