Here is more on the history of uglyCaps:
http://www.testingcraft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?StudlyCaps
Quote:
``Round about 1978, I remember using a terminal, said to be "a
European one", that displayed the underscore character
as a backward arrow. Some programming language or other
used that character for assignment, which made programs
written in it look pretty funny on any other terminal.
It also meant that programming languages couldn't
sensibly use_underscores_in_multiword_variables." ´´
``I remain firmly convinced, with no particular evidence,
that that's the readon the HarderToReadStudlyCapsStyle?
was invented: as a workaround. It seems to have become
prevalant and cool when Smalltalk became cool (though
not prevalent). Like a genetic disease, it's now so
intertwined in our "Digital DNA" that we can't eradicate
it - see the standard Java APIs, for example. ´´
Fortunately, we can avoid falling into that trap. PHP
supports underscores, and terminals which cannot display the
character correctly don't prevail any longer.
So, studlyCaps fans, join the modern times where it is
permittable to use underscores as word seperators.
- Sascha
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