But there's a good reason to use Hungarian that no one ever mentions.
The first thing I do when I inherit someone else's code is change everything to Hungarian. Why? So that I can figure out more quickly what the hell they're doing. Yes, if *I* had written the code, C++ genius that I am, no one would *ever* have to do this - but, for some reason, I keep getting crapware from people who are much worse programmers than I (does that happen to you, too?), and Hungarian de-obfusticates their code fast.
Yeah, yeah, I know, "It's an object, you don't need to know what type it is." Sure, if the monkey who wrote it keeps a copy of "Design Patterns" under his pillow (as I do). Otherwise, I'm just the guy with the shovel at the circus... if speaking Hungarian helps me shovel faster, all the better...
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But there's a good reason to use Hungarian that no one ever mentions.
The first thing I do when I inherit someone else's code is change everything to Hungarian. Why? So that I can figure out more quickly what the hell they're doing. Yes, if *I* had written the code, C++ genius that I am, no one would *ever* have to do this - but, for some reason, I keep getting crapware from people who are much worse programmers than I (does that happen to you, too?), and Hungarian de-obfusticates their code fast.
Yeah, yeah, I know, "It's an object, you don't need to know what type it is." Sure, if the monkey who wrote it keeps a copy of "Design Patterns" under his pillow (as I do). Otherwise, I'm just the guy with the shovel at the circus... if speaking Hungarian helps me shovel faster, all the better...
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