R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@angelastella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>angelastella</span></a></span></p><blockquote><p>It's fine for code but also (a) harder to explain/teach, (b) harder to automate, (c) badly supported on Mastodon (incremental search usually smashes case).</p></blockquote><p>I think Mastodon has gotten better at preserving <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/camelcase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CamelCase</span></a> in hashtags. <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a> is working on it, it's still really bad right now (always flattening/<code>tolower()</code>-ing).</p><p>I can see being a bit harder to explain/teach, although I'm not sure what cases of automation you're referring to.</p><p>I guess my main thing (and perhaps it's a silly one) is that <code>_</code> is harder to reach than just capitalizing (and not spacing out) the next word. XD</p><blockquote><p>I have no issues with Pascal (Borland's implementations and docs were excellent), but I had to learn C immediately afterwards like everyone else.</p></blockquote><p>I used Borland on the PC and Symantec/THINK on the Mac. Both absolutely lovely.<br>Symantec Pascal on the (emulated) mac was actually a stepping stone towards @neaoire@merveilles.town's development of <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/uxn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uxn</span></a>, IIRC. They even developed a 3d game in Pascal on the Mac (heavily accelerated, of course)</p>