Question

I’ve recently started learning Win32 API and I hate Hungarian notation (those stupid prefixes in variable names which make the code looking ugly and almost unreadable), however as you may know it is absolutely everywhere in there! And this fact causes everyone to use it in their code too to keep kind of consistency… I suppose it is stupid question but anyway, should I do so as well? Will my code look strange or wrong if I don’t?

Answer 1

It seems that it’s only because it’s internal Microsoft coding standard. I personally use it only in the original (intented) way, and sometimes it makes sense (eg, I preffer int size_kb instead of defining type for size in kilobytes).

also check this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html