Post #2222506
2026-03-11 10:45 UTC
@print@theforkiverse.com
@crabby@mastodon.world
Technically it is camelCase and PascalCase, yeah, but:
- CamelCase is pretty self-evident, where PascalCase relies on obscure programming language trivia to even begin making sense.
- It'll require WAY more explanation to understand the difference between camelCase and PascalCase, and even that there is a difference, than getting the point of CamelCase.
- For this CamelCase is actually preferred to camelCase.
- We're discussing ACCESSIBILITY, not programming conventions and history. And making that distinction is about as inaccessible as it gets. 🥴
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Take this for somebody with quite a pedant vein as well: just say/use CamelCase and forget the mess, being "correct" here is of no use.
Or consider camelCase and CamelCase different words, if it helps. 😜
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@print@theforkiverse.com 2026-03-11 10:52
@yenndc@kolektiva.social @crabby@mastodon.world "The earliest use of the name "Camel Case" occurs in 1995, in a post by Newton Love. "With the advent of programming languages having these sorts of constructs, the humpiness of the style made me call it HumpyCase at first, before I settled on CamelCase. I had been calling it CamelCase for years. ... The citation above was just the first time I had used the name on USENET."[ The term "Pascal Case" was coined in design discussions for the .NET Framework, first released in 2002