On 31 May 2017 10:26:06 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>wrote in message 
>news:86dba466-a764-522b-6990-39fd7668a...@fleshgrinder.com...
>I should point out that snake_case was the universal standard decades
>before 
>some people switched to CamelCase.

[citation needed]

Lisp, for instance, uses hyphens to separate words, and has don't since the 
1950s.

> That was only because some software
>could 
>not handle long names, but could handle both upper and lower case, so
>an 
>upper case character was used instead of an underscore.

[citation needed]

I'm sorry, but this smells of folklore and guesswork to me. Both underscores 
and mixed case are workarounds for the inability to include spaces in 
identifiers, and have their pros and cons, most of which these days come down 
to opinions on aesthetics.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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