From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T23:48:02+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

On 12/8/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:27:23PM +0900, Rich wrote:
> > I'd be interested to know *why* it is a language convention, and more
> > important why it is a lanaguage convention that from this thread it
> > seems rubyists vigorously insist upon?  For those of us who were
> > "raised" with a language like Java (or as some on this list may say,
> > brain damaged ;-), lowerCamelCase seems more pleasing to the eye than
> > identifiers_with_underscores.
>
> More to the point, from my point of view, it's easier to type without
> being made unreadable (where it == lowerCamelCase) and actually uses
> rather less keystrokes.

Don't see how using lowerCamelCase uses less keystrokes than
lower_camel_case.  I pressed 16 keys to type of of them.  :-)