Hungarian notation heads to space
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Charles Simonyi, the former Microsoft software developer who's credited with creating a self-documenting programming style called Hungarian Notation, could make a trip to the International Space Station next year onboard a Russian spacecraft. The billionaire was one of the key developers of both Microsoft Word and Excel back in the mid-1980's.
"A preliminary contract with Simonyi has been concluded for spring 2007," said Alexei Krasnov, the head of manned spaceflight programs at Russia's Federal Space Agency.
Contracts for Russian space flights currently fetch about $20 million and include training and a week in orbit with two professional astronauts. Simonyi is worth about $1 billion, according to Forbes.