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From: smize@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Samuel Mize)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/07/02
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Date: 1996-07-02T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4r7pvr$sh6@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
>smize@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Samuel Mize) writes:
...
>>Underscores also take a little more effort to type
...
>>especially if
>>you're not a good touch typist.  So, the MixedCase identifier is
>>still common in some quarters.
>
>This is ludicrous.  It is _harder_ to type 
>	FooBarUgh
>(because it requires *three* case shifts) than
>	foo_bar_ugh
>(because it requires only *two* case shifts).  And in an age of mutable
>keymaps it is even sillier.

I didn't say it wasn't silly.  Many poor typists avoid at all costs
getting that forefinger off the home key.  *I* can type underlines
without looking away from the screen, and apparently so can you.

But some people really do resist change for such trivial reasons.
Or at least, this is how they justify not changing their habits.

Samuel Mize