> From: Johnny Withers <joh...@pixelated.net>
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

"The original Hungarian notation... was invented by Charles Simonyi... who 
later became Chief Architect at Microsoft."

Ugh. That explains a lot!

The only time I let types intrude on names is with booleans, which I try to 
name with a state-of-being verb, such as "has_paid", "is_member", 
"has_children", etc.

> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl <mdi...@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, while we're on the subject of SQL style, can anyone tell me why I'm
>> always seeing people prefixing the name of a table with something like
>> "tbl?"

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