>>>Here's an interesting piece :)
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>>>Making Wrong Code Look Wrong - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
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>>Okay - I bookmarked for future reference (have some XSS issues coming up), but, the author referred to "Hungarian" notation. I have also heard reference to "reverse Polish notation" (BAL and CPM).
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>>Are "Hungarian" and "reversed Polish" a different reference to the same protocal?
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>Hungarian notation is a reference to Charles Simonyi, the credited lead designer of Microsoft Word. The gist of it is variable names are prefixed by characters indicating type and scope. Alan Griver brought the naming convention to the FoxPro world.
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Interestingly, it seems that Joel is correct in saying that Charles Simonyi never meant hungarian notation to indicate type and scope at all.

And I thought that at least I had a good handle on one topic :)