From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 19:30:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: Patricia Shanahan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: 09 Jun 2001 02:30:24 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <3B218ACE.DDCF3C@acm.org> References: <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1DF8FE.80691865@brighton.ac.uk> <3B204623.EB7F71D3@home.com> <3B210FF5.C53AC949@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3B215646.10DCA6D4@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.36.181.229 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10519 comp.lang.ada:8475 comp.lang.awk:2944 comp.lang.clarion:21520 comp.lang.java.programmer:74950 comp.lang.pl1:945 comp.lang.vrml:3684 Date: 2001-06-09T02:30:24+00:00 List-Id: Larry Elmore wrote: > > Wes Groleau wrote: > > > > > > IIRC the first language where I found namesLikeThis in common usage > > > > was Smalltalk. > > > > > > I first saw it Pascal. I suspect it outdates Smalltalk, but don't know > > > if Pascal adopted it from something earlier. > > > > I wrote thousands of lines of Pascal without ever doing that > > or even seeing it. > > Curious. I learned Pascal in 1984 (Montana State used it then, now they > use Ada for 2 years and C++ thereafter (ick)). I've only rarely seen > Pascal written any other way. The three books on my shelf that have > Pascal code in them have namesLikeThis, and I know Delphi's Object > Pascal has always been written in that style. > > Larry Since I rarely throw away books, I still have the copy of the "Pascal User Manual and Report" (2nd. Edition, Kathleen Jensen and Niklaus Wirth, 1974) from which I learned Pascal. It uses all lower case identifiers, with no punctuation to separate words, or more commonly their abbreviations. Flipping through it, I just came across "egrepeat" which had me wondering for a moment why a sample program would do anything with peat, and what does "egre" mean anyway? Patricia