From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T11:59:31+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

At 11:42 PM +0900 12/8/05, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>The human eye picks out words by shape.  We use spaces between words
>to separate those shapes into easily digested chunks.  OneLongWord is
>not a shape we are use to, so we have to stop and think.
>Unfortunately, spaces aren't allowed in programming variables.  The _
>character is allowed though and the next best thing, so we go with that.

What he said.  Also, we need to optimize for the "read" case:

  *  Code is written once, but may be read many times.

  *  The reading may be done under great stress and time pressure.

  *  If information is discarded in the writing process, it may
     not be possible to retrieve it in the reading process.

-r
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