In the software world we often seem to end up with abbreviations which are ubiquitous but no longer strongly linked to their unabbreviated form. I often find this annoying and distracting. I try an avoid being the source of such annoyance for others. For example if I find myself using abbreviations in my source code, maybe as a prefix for example, I will always ensure the abbreviation is explained at least once in a…
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391791/whats-with-the-afx... TL;DR: it stands for Application Framework X (a group at MS responsible for the MFC, Microsoft Foundation Classes, library at some point)
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