>Hungarian notation is a remnant of non-typed languages like VFP where you never know what variable type something is going to hold....however, with strong typing it is not needed.
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>I remember when Charlie Schreiner wrote a great article for FoxTalk back around '96 or '97, titled, "A cRose by any other cName".
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>At the time, I'd been using Hungarian, but he made some great points that convinced me of the absurdity of (for instance) naming a property cFontName and nFontSize.

I'm glad it was persuasive. I can't hardly stand to read the prefixes. Somehow I still have oControl left in my code, but I'm trying to do better. :-)