From Against Camel Case : As you probab…

From Against Camel Case :

As you probably know, the California-based company Apple makes a portable communication device — a device that an acquaintance of mine whose first language is not English distinguishes as a “self” phone. Though proper nouns conventionally begin with a capital letter, Apple spells the device’s trademark with an initial lowercase i, followed by an uppercase P. Thus styled, the word has a hump in the middle. I could print it here to show you, but I refuse to allow my prose to be so disfigured.

I love writing and I can’t help bet get nerdy about it when I read articles like this. However, I think some camel casing is fine. Like the example in the article, iPhone feels much better to me than would Iphone. Don’t stand there and tell me that looks better, it just doesn’t. But where camel casing gives me headaches is in code, where it most likely began. Stuff like: MyFunctionNameGoesHere. Horrible stuff. So, as a general rule, I despise camel casing but I do rather like it when it makes more sense than not using it.