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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/20
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BJG says

<<A small interjection: while I cannot truly disagree with the main idea
above (nobody likes indecipherable "Joe code", especially after Joe has
left the company), I find it worrysome that you'd call something that
scares programmers away from Ada an 'advantage'.  Isn't one more
programmer choosing to work in Ada a good thing for the community?

..And I can only hope you don't mean that Ada makes it impossible to write
neat, cool code!  (Since it's patently untrue.)
>>

Well of course it is possible to display the neat/cool phenomenon in any
language. Unfortunately we don't know how to design languages that only
permit straightforward easy to understand code. I said discourage and
not prohibit :-)

As for scaring away undisciplined programmers -- if that happens, and I
think in fact it does, then no aplogies, this is a GOOD THING :-)