Naming Is Still Hard

Back in January I wrote about naming things and I came across another article with more info so I figured I'd share that. The one I have some disagreement with is the emphatic advice to avoid hungarian notation. While I agree that prefixing with the base type information is wasteful and makes things harder for your IDE, the original usage for hungarian notation, particularly when writing C code for windows makes a lot of sense. When your language/compiler can't help you out you help yourself. That's still relevant today with some DSLs. When I was writing shaders in HLSL for instance, the compilers weren't very smart, so we had to watch out for things ourselves.