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You should read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html. It shows the history of Hungarian notation, and how the original creator of it was right, but someone else messed it up and wrecked the idea of Hungarian.
@Greg
Aaah.. this is good read indeed. And even kind of confirms my point that there’s no real issue with using ‘idx’ or ‘uq’, only the types are problematic.
Ouch. The article reads like Hungarian indeed. How about a link to a plain English version?
Hungarian is a lovely language actually!
Even more difficult than Polish is but I really like it.