Case sensitive and ludicrous statements

[Paul Rubin]

Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> writes:
> You will notice that CamelCase was extremely uncommon (if used at all)
> before the advent of case-sensitive languages, and there is good
> reason for this.  It didn't make sense then, and it doesn't make sense
> now!  (In a case-insensitive language.)

The convention always annoyed me, but I think it was customary in the
old days of Smalltalk.  When object-oriented programming became a fad
in the 80's, it spread into other languages from there.