I've just completed reading the face-off between Jim Nelson, a frequenty contributor to this forum, and Yair Alan Griver, famous author of Codebook 3.0 on the topic of Hungarian notation.

Nelson gave a lot of good arguments specific to VFP, while Griver short response seemed merely an appeal to "authority."

I use Hungarian notation (most of the time :-), but when it comes to field names in tables I do not. My first experience with the Fox was about a year ago with FPW2.5. I found 10 characters limiting. When VFP and the DBC came out I was thrilled.

Thrilled until my first DBC broke and all the long fields names joined with the infinite bit-bucket in the sky. Several field names in one table were identical through the first 10 characters and Foxie didn't like that one bit. or byte or bite - take your pick!

I'm back to 10 char field names with no Hungarian notation.

Jerry