“ Most authorities now instruct writers to capitalize whatever the corporations tell them to. Writers of the world, fight back!
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In other words, though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology, its effect is regressive — in fact, medieval. It harks back to an era when reading was effortful, public and loud — like a visit to a contemporary shopping mall. Perhaps camel case, like intrusive music, baffling floor plans and aggressive fragrances, is deployed to weary and bewilder us, to render us so addled that we have to say corporations’ trademarks aloud to be sure of what we’re looking at. It doesn’t have to be this way. Put some distance between you and your Master Card; don’t let your Iphone make the rules. You don’t have to buy their language. It already belongs to you.
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In other words, though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology, its effect is regressive — in fact, medieval. It harks back to an era when reading was effortful, public and loud — like a visit to a contemporary shopping mall. Perhaps camel case, like intrusive music, baffling floor plans and aggressive fragrances, is deployed to weary and bewilder us, to render us so addled that we have to say corporations’ trademarks aloud to be sure of what we’re looking at. It doesn’t have to be this way. Put some distance between you and your Master Card; don’t let your Iphone make the rules. You don’t have to buy their language. It already belongs to you.
— Caleb Crain, in On Language - “Against Camel Case” for the NYTimes.
Having programmed, I have a preference for using underscores in place of spaces, instead of using camel case, like_this. Besides the humps, the name “camel case” suggests to me the spitting and ill-tempered ugliness of WordsCrammed together InUngainlyWays.
Having programmed, I have a preference for using underscores in place of spaces, instead of using camel case, like_this. Besides the humps, the name “camel case” suggests to me the spitting and ill-tempered ugliness of WordsCrammed together InUngainlyWays.
