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Hungarian notation

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  • noun computing, programming A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.

Etymologies

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The notation was invented by Charles Simonyi (born 1948), Hungarian-American computer programmer.

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