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Plain Ridiculous with a capital R

And finally, to CamelCase: the process of sticking uppercase letters where they do not really belong.
‘Should we be calling the technique Camelisation? This is interesting because the origin of the terms lower case and upper case are derived from the trays (cases) in which printers used to keep the pieces of lead that formed the letters,’ says Peter Grossi, bringing to mind images of an obedient Camel holding a box of letters.
‘Surely there is a perfectly acceptable TLA for internal capitalisation namely iIc (inappropriate internal capitalisation),’ says Jim Blair at Hills Road Sixth Form College, which brings us neatly back to where we started.

January 31, 2007 in backbytes | Permalink

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