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November 9, 2008

Much to everyone’s anguish

— srikanth @ 9:13 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1226265203 ) Play

Who is this computing pioneer, and what programming technique is named based on him?

(My sympathies to anyone who has been forced to use this to code.)

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Vijay Shankar , varuns88 , Ajay Parasuram , udupendra and Ananth.

Answer
Charles Simonyi, a programmer-guru type chap who’s responsible for one of the few good MS products, MS Excel.

The Hungarian Notation of variable naming was named after him (since he’s from Hungary).

19 Responses to “Much to everyone’s anguish”

  1. shenoyvarun86 Says:

    Charles Simonyi

    shenoyvarun86

  2. shenoyvarun86 Says:

    Charles Simonyi & Hungarian notation

    shenoyvarun86

  3. username Says:

    Charles Simonyi
    Metaprogramming


  4. vivek Says:

    Charles Simonyi


  5. Dibyo Says:

    Charles Simonyi, who came up concepts like Hungarian Notation and Metaprogramming.

    Dibyo

  6. Vijay Shankar Says:

    Charles Simonyi, Hungarian notation.


  7. Bipin Banavalikar Says:

    Person : Mr. Charles Simonyi
    Programming technique : Win32 API Programming

    Regards


  8. Siddharth Says:

    Charles Simonyi and intentional programming


  9. akhi Says:

    Charles Simonyi .
    Intentional Programming

    akhi

  10. dheeraj Says:

    Charles Simonyi…

    Intentional programming


  11. Nakul Says:

    Charles simonyi. MS Word


  12. varuns88 Says:

    Charles Simonyi and the Hungarian Notation(??)

    varuns88

  13. jayanth Says:

    Intentional programming..

    jayanth

  14. Ajay Parasuram Says:

    Charles Simonyi – Hungarian Notation


  15. pratap Says:

    Charles Simonyi; Hungarian Notation


  16. udupendra Says:

    Charles Simonyi, Hungarian Notation

    udupendra

  17. Ananth Says:

    Charles Simonyi, of Hungarian Notation pain.

    Ananth

  18. malcaluffin Says:

    Charles Simonyi


  19. Rahulk Says:

    Randal L. Schwartz

    Schwartzian Transform


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