Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

[Alex Martelli]

sjdevnull at yahoo.com <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Historically, it's only Java and the Windows world (including non-
> standard Windows-style C++) that use forcedCase significantly (C#
> draws from both).

I remember meeting that style first in the X Window System (now commonly
known as X11, but it was around for a few years before the 11 arrived),
which is a little bit older than Windows and WAY older than Java.  I
don't know if X was the first project to use that style consistently.


Alex