Just like those few people not afraid of expressing their opinion (against popular dogma) and actually using it for good, I say Hungarian notation is not bad, but good. But just like everything, it is only good when you not overuse it. I'm using it in many cases with some exceptions (when the name actually conveys the type already or when it is a number and I don't really care how many bytes it is or if it signed, etc.). EDIT: Oh, yes, forgot to mention that I'm not using the 'pure Hungarian' prefixes, I just use the principle, making sure the prefixes are unambiguous. What I believe happened, is the Hungarian notation (similar to goto operator) are being witch-hunted, which is triggered by some incompetent and overconfident tongue (or hand/pen, rather) of some wanna-be computer science study book writer (and I'm implying a bunch of quite well-known authors here if you wondered). Well, after that the sheep herd just follows. Please, have your own opinion, people, it is refreshing. Just use the practice you think helps creating clear, maintainable code, regardless of what 'they' say. :)