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Why?


He explains it in this 1 minute interview. He lived in Hungary until he moved to the US with his parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZw4LNLYUgc&list=PLyajeoDXKm...


Hungarian notation has nothing to do with living in Hungary. It's a style of naming variables in which type codes are prefixed to the name, e.g. a variable holding a name might be called lpszName for "long pointer to string terminated with a zero". It's called Hungarian notation because the programmer at Microsoft who came up with it came from Hungary, beyond that there's no connection.


ah ok. Then I take it back;)


But actually I think we should all respect his privacy - I'm just annoyed when people come up with such odd new ideas that may harm bitcoin's reputation.




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