Re: Column naming convention origin?

In 1976, Simonyi was probably at Xerox Parc. I have no idea when he invented Hungarian notation; although, a search at Microsoft.com might turn up a clue or two.

"Anton Versteeg" <anton_versteeg_at_nnll.iibbmm.com> wrote in message news:40100370.4030200_at_nnll.iibbmm.com...
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> Thanks for the pointer.
> It looks similar but I don't think it is quite same.
> He used the typing for variable names in C source code.
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> Anyway Simonyi was a microsoft programmer and in the time frame I was
> referring to (1976) that company didn't exist yet.
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> Boris Stumm wrote:
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> >Anton Versteeg wrote:
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> >>Back in the seventies, (I was doing IMS database design) I saw somewhere
> >>a naming convention for attributes.
> >>It was in the form a_b_c_d
> >>where 'a' was a 1 character code describing the attribute type.
> >>A - address, text, name
> >>B - binary
> >>C - code (often called number like part number)
> >>D - date
> >>K - key
> >>M - amount
> >>N - number, numeric
> >>etc.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sounds like hungarian notation, invented by Charles Simonyi afaik. The
context
> >was not database design and columns, but programming and variables.
> >
> >Maybe that helps.
> >
> >Boris Stumm
> >
> >
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> Anton Versteeg
> IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
> IBM Netherlands
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Received on Thu Jan 22 2004 - 21:48:38 CET