And did this naming convention arise originally in C or in Pascal? It reads more cleanly in Pascal’s “Name:TYPE” syntax than in C’s “TYPE Name” syntax.
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I like to tell myself the story that Windows was originally written in Turbo Pascal.
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The 16-bit Windows APIs used the __pascal calling convention. Was Pascal the intended Windows platform language at some point in the early 1980’s, before C was predominant?
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So glad I follow you for entertaining tweets about fortnite
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What’s Fortnite? I’m here for Unreal Tournament announcements

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Imagine bill gates actually replying. Epic mega moment
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Not sure but once had to read the source code for NT4 back in the 90’s and it was worse in there. A function header read like: Void FunctionName ( Float parameter, Int parameter, ) { <...> } It wasn’t obsfucated code either...
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Yikes, they didn’t indent?
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Is this useful? It was definitely prevalent when I started on Mail in 91...https://books.google.com/books?id=5WXp4j4eV4UC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=raymond+chen+hungarian&source=bl&ots=49JW2n3wSZ&sig=ACfU3U2EuE8Sog2mkPkSUjGnwMxU7Gr98w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw_oLfsc3pAhVFYs0KHfcJCBkQ6AEwAnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=raymond%20chen%20hungarian&f=false …
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http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/06/102702232-05-01-acc.pdf … Booch: Now tell me what forces led you to Hungarian notations? Simonyi: Well, that was very clear, I had to have this horribly complex program that I would have to write in PDP-10 machine code ...
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