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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/21
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Date: 1996-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Nasser asks

"SO, why do you think this difference exist between the 2 groups of
programmers? It seems to be getting worse with time. I remmember
starting to first see ThisTypeOfWritingOfCode around 1985-1986 time
frame, I dont think I saw this before but I can be wrong. So the
question is really, what did happen in 1985-1986 to cause this?"

This style of separating words with upper case and no break characters
is I think derived from the Pascal world (for example it was the UCSD
style). Micrsoft derived much of their standard interfaces from this
world, as of course did Borland, so I suspect the importation of this
style into C++ comes from this source).