Well attestedIndirect, via a person or title
Hungarian notation
noun · first attested 1980s
Named for a programmer's birthplace, because the prefixed names looked foreign.
A programming convention that prefixes every identifier with letters encoding its type or intended use.
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- Indirect, via a person or title
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1980s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Hungarian notation
The convention comes from Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian-born engineer at Xerox PARC and later Microsoft, and colleagues joked that identifiers written this way looked like Hungarian. The name also fits in a second way, since Hungarian puts the family name first, as the notation puts the type first.
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