From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case
Date: 1997/03/26
Date: 1997-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil> (raw)
Please don't let this be the start of another flame war. I really
need a piece of factual information, rather than opinions. I've got
plenty of opinions myself.
I've heard it said that of all the possible case conventions that
could be used in programming, the worst possible one is to require iden-
tifiers to be all upper case. (This is one of those opinions that I
agree with.) Often when I've heard this, there has been either an ac-
company statement or an implication that studies have been done showing
that this convention reduces comprehension, compared to the all-lower-
case or the initial-caps ones. Can anyone point me toward any such
study? I doesn't even have to be on the Internet. A reasonably acces-
sible journal would be fine.
I poked around in the FAQ and didn't find anything, which is sur-
prising given the bandwidth that has been spent on the subject of case.
Charlie
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-26 0:00 Charles H. Sampson [this message]
1997-03-26 0:00 ` IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Matthew Heaney
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Charles Lindsey
1997-04-03 0:00 ` John English
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jeff Burns
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
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