Charles Simonyi leaves Microsoft

tibbetts writes "The New York Times reports (printable version) (Free blah di blah) that Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect at Microsoft and creator of Bravo, a text-editing program that later became Microsoft Word, has left the company to form his own startup. The focus of his new company is to "simplify programming by representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of conventional programming languages," which is highly ironic in light of his infamous Hungarian Notation style of naming variables. Perhaps more amazingly, 'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.'"

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Re:MS Word Competitor in the works?

[Tet]

And a word on hungarian notation. It makes me want to puke. Your variables should be named well enough that it shouldn't need extra letters to tell you the type.

More to the point, the compiler will tell you when you've got the type wrong anyway. Hungarian notation is completely unnecessary, and (IMHO, of course) those who claim it makes for easier reading need their heads examined. It serves no purpose, and for that reason alone, shouldn't be used...