Tue, 17 Sep 2002

Charles Simonyi Leaves Microsoft

The NY Times reports that Charles Simonyi is leaving Microsoft to form a startup that will try to commercialize on his research into intentional programming. Simonyi, among other innovations, is the inventor of Hungarian notation, a shorthand system used by C and C++ programmers to determine what types are assigned to variables without looking at the variable's declaration.

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