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by SCLeo 1277 days ago
> Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to the sheer volume of source code contaminated by this idiom nothing can kill a maintenance engineer faster than a well planned Hungarian Notation attack. The following tips will help you corrupt the original intent of Hungarian Notation:

I can't stop laughing.

1 comments

  m_bIsLaughing
There should be more tips, like use "l" as a prefix to any number, like shorts. Also, make sure to sometimes distinguish shorts, ints and sometimes not!

Also, when you've accumulated about ten years of this, start using a different making scheme and make sure there are preferably random bits of Hungarian notation around. Make sure there's no record of why and no explanation of what Hungarian notation is and how to use it.