The knowledge Martha's claiming is rather all-inclusive, it would appear. You should be blushing at that admission, Martha.
BTW, the article says he's the smartest coder, not the best coder. I've been a pretty fair coder in my day (and a Senior Consultant to Microsoft), I've met Charles, and the statement has a very high likelihood of being correct.
HF
Oops. I meant to link
this whole Hungarian thing
at the very start.
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Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of an object indicates its type or intended use. There are two types of Hungarian notation: Systems Hungarian notation and Apps Hungarian notation.
It was designed to be language-independent, and found its first major use with the BCPL programming language. Because BCPL has no data types other than the machine word, nothing in the language itself helps a programmer remember variables' types. Hungarian notation aims to remedy this by providing the programmer with explicit knowledge of each variable's data type.
In Hungarian notation, a variable name starts with one or more lower-case letters which are mnemonics for the type or purpose of that variable, followed by whatever the name the programmer has chosen; this last part is sometimes distinguished as the given name. The first character of the given name can be capitalised to separate it from the type indicators (see also CamelCase). Otherwise the case of this character denotes scope.
History
The original Hungarian notation, which would now be called Apps Hungarian, was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972-1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft. . . .
[Hungarian notation]