leah & tigers & bears, oh my! on Nostr: that's Microsoft's fault. Charles Simonyi, iirc, brought Hungarian notation with him ...

that's Microsoft's fault. Charles Simonyi, iirc, brought Hungarian notation with him from Xerox, where it was helpful for programming an Alto in BCPL; from there it spread throughout MS, but the Windows division didn't seem to understand that the point of it was to code intent rather than, you know, what could already be gleaned from the type system... and it's their misunderstanding of it that caught on more broadly - so much more broadly that people are still doing this shit today :-(