On 12/22/2011 1:02 PM, John Walker wrote:
I've been a mainframer my entire career, and while I at first found all upper case weird, I have grown used to it. In fact, I feel non-mixed case to be a superior idea. Mixed case ALWAYS produces more typos, let alone slowing down your reading as you ensure whether you duplicated that name with all the upper case and lower case and upper case and lower case and lower case, etc. Mixed case is crapola that comes from the PC side.
Wrong. Several human factors studies have shown mixed case to be more readable. (Exception, to my mind, there are some characters, in some fonts, where visual confusion can arise (e.g.: lower case 'el' versus number 'one')). What I think is wrong is case-sensitivity. Assembler, PL/I, and COBOL all got it right. C, C++, Java, etc. have it wrong.
Don't let it happen or the PC people will force their mixed-case crapola down our throats.
Mixed case is not crapola, nor is it 'PC'. I write all my code in mixed case these days, even REXX and CLIST can be mixed case.
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