From: Tim Hammerquist <penryu@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T03:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

Kevin Brown <blargity@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thursday 08 December 2005 01:37, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> > This recurring label "CamelCase" (or sometimes "camelCase")
> > seems to come up a lot, and I can't help thinking "camel" is
> > a reference to Perl...
>
> Why?  CamelCase simply refers to the humps that appear in the
> middle of words when youUppercaseTheMiddleWord.  At least
> that's how I've always thought of it.  I don't think anyone's
> pointing fingers at Perl.  Hell, I came from C++ and my first
> real Ruby code has all methods named in lowerCamelCase. -_-

Ah. Now it all makes sense.  Thanks!

Tim Hammerquist