atw: Re: CamelCase

Actually, in some contexts (e.g. Java programming) camelCase commonly has
no initial cap. on the first word (a headless camel) and the form with
the first word capitalised is "UpperCamelCase", as that Wikipedia article
confirms.

My friend Henry Quince wrote the following a while back.

camelCase

There's lower case and UPPER CASE and Title Case,
and now, thanks to computer geekery, there's camelCase,
a momentumGathering compoundWordmaking languageFashion
with which at last we can outdo the Germans with a passion.
It finally lies within the power of English to trump
those cumbrous Teutonic compounds lacking a helpful hump,
to outdo their "Lebensversicherungsgessellschaft" -
which frankly is flatOut foreignerBaffling daft -
with the compactly bactrian lifeInsuranceCompany.
While that has two humps and dromedaryCase has one hump, any
number of humps may occur in a camelCase word,
even if you find an InvalidRailwayPensionersBenevolentFund absurd.

;-)

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Peter Bloxsom
http://www.netpublish.net
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Burnfield" <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: atw: Re: CamelCase [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


>
> I haven't heard of CamelCase, though I have heard it called CamelCaps
with
> respect to product names suh as WinFax Pro and ProLiant servers.
>
> Presumably the capital letters at the start and middle of the name are
> meant to resemble the head and hump of a camel.
>
> Stuart

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