I started programming with C and used Hungarian notation since then. It was very helpful back then to instantly know what type the variable is from its name.
When I started programming in .NET using Visual Studio, Intellisense made a major breakthrough and helped a lot. You just point your mouse over a variable and intellisense will provide you with its underlying type. Not to mention the automatic dropdown of object members after a dot(.) operator.
Upon seeing a number of codes on the net and knowing the preferred convention of on naming variables, I started to realize that I'm beginning to hate Hungarian Notation. I don't want to see those str prefixes on string variables, etc. And besides, if you follow today's standard naming guidelines, you can deduce from the variable names their types.
Posted
Mar 29 2005, 08:42 AM
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jokiz