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Question time
We were discussing the exact term for the time taken to realise that you have accidentally deleted a lot of important files.
Many write to say that this is an ‘ohnosecond’, although strictly that refers to the time taken to realise you have sent an email to the wrong person. ‘The correct term is, in fact, a “sodit”,’ says Peter Grossi at 2k Business Services.
He also raises the first Big Question of 2007: ‘Is there a simple term to describe the use of internal capitalisation when constructing composite words? This technique has migrated from program variables into company names.’
It is about time we had a name for this, and a set of government standards. Shall we start a petition?
As any programmer knows, use of internal capitals is called "Camel Case" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase), though how this works when there are more than two capitals in the word isn't known.
Posted by :Richard Petheram | January 18, 2007 11:05 AM
The correct term for 'internal capitalisation' is CamelCase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase
Posted by :Peter Norbury | January 19, 2007 9:40 AM
Sad to admit but this is known as "CamelCase" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase.
Posted by :Alex Tibbles | January 19, 2007 10:09 PM