I don't understand why people are so violently opposed to Hungarian notation. I use it. Every old school web scripter I know who grew up on a text editor uses it. Newer IDE software might make it easier to determine a variable type, but IDE software gets in the way as much as it helps. Half the time I jump back into a text editor. Hungarian notation is old school. Maybe in a field like code hacking old school is to be abandoned, but I would rather know that I can write what I need from scratch and have it work than depend upon some friggin bloat code generating IDE to tell me what a variable type is. Most articles I have read recently have said never to use Hungarian notation. Ten years ago it was all about how you should use Hungarian notation. I would rather do what works than do what is the "in" thing.
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I don't understand why people are so violently opposed to Hungarian notation. I use it. Every old school web scripter I know who grew up on a text editor uses it. Newer IDE software might make it easier to determine a variable type, but IDE software gets in the way as much as it helps. Half the time I jump back into a text editor. Hungarian notation is old school. Maybe in a field like code hacking old school is to be abandoned, but I would rather know that I can write what I need from scratch and have it work than depend upon some friggin bloat code generating IDE to tell me what a variable type is. Most articles I have read recently have said never to use Hungarian notation. Ten years ago it was all about how you should use Hungarian notation. I would rather do what works than do what is the "in" thing.