Apps Hungarian is an example of good practice, e.g. distinguishing between otherwise identically named variables and functions relating to rows vs. columns in Microsoft Excel, which Charles Simonyi was working on when he invented it. The central tenant is that the prefixes relate to the semantic meaning.
Systems Hungarian was a total misunderstanding of the intent, wherein the type was stated in a prefix. Your post pretty well sums up why that's a terrible idea.
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Apps Hungarian is an example of good practice, e.g. distinguishing between otherwise identically named variables and functions relating to rows vs. columns in Microsoft Excel, which Charles Simonyi was working on when he invented it. The central tenant is that the prefixes relate to the semantic meaning.
Systems Hungarian was a total misunderstanding of the intent, wherein the type was stated in a prefix. Your post pretty well sums up why that's a terrible idea.