I Love Camel Case
Dan (my colleague) was talking to someone sitting beside me today, and he happened to mention "camel case". It actually refers to the "mashing" of two words together taking out the space, and capitalising the first letter of the second word. An example would be "helloThereHowAreYou". It gets its name from the shape made from the shape from the "ups" of the upper case letters and the "downs" of the lower case letters, making the compound word look like the back of a camel. In many scripting languages, (in my case just MEL and Python), I see a lot of it. That's when I came to know about this. However, I was doing it for a few years before I first heard the term "camel case" being used to describe arranging words like this. This is a huge space saver when it comes to naming variables, functions and objects in my code. Instead of having to name a variable $name_of_my_variable, I can just name it $nameOfMyVariable. It sav