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Where does the practice of naming variables with the prefix “my” come from?

I recognize that there are situations in which “my” is semantically useful, but I have met multiple professional programmers that have a habit of using this everywhere that it’s not – “my_var”, “myTemp”, etc. I recently discovered that my friend’s professor is using this in his assignments, which made me wonder if there is actually some historical reason for this.

What is ServletUtilities?

The answer in this question suggests creating a ServletUtilities class to handle text conversion between Java strings and XML text.

What is ServletUtilities?

The answer in this question suggests creating a ServletUtilities class to handle text conversion between Java strings and XML text.