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by peter-fogg 4699 days ago
I find that I dismiss pretty nearly anyone who refers to a programming language in all caps. Outside of FORTRAN, COBOL, and C.*, it just looks ridiculous -- SCHEME, ERLANG, LISP, JAVA...
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JulianMorrison 4699 days ago
Rule: you're allowed to use all caps to name any language that originally had to be programmed on terminals without lowercase letters.
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innguest 4698 days ago
So LISP? :)
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hboon 4699 days ago
Also add a special case "SmallTalk" for instant dismissal. It's Smalltalk.
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bigiain 4699 days ago
Heh, of _all_ languages – you'd have thought Perl would end up with CamelCase. "PeRl" – nah…
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VintageCool 4699 days ago
PHP?
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