Empirical proof that underscores are good

[SoMad]

:thumbsup: It's nice they put that right there in the intro. No need to read through the study then. :-\ Soren Madsen

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[Ron Beyer]

"And in other breaking news studies, the University of Obvious found that people who's native language is English can pick out English phrases in German sentences better than German phrases".

[lewax00]

It's proof that English is better! :-D

[Mycroft Holmes]

Will you sod off with your dammed logic that just killed my main argument (keyboard and intellisense) against underscores, I hate the bloody things and growl at any of the devs that employ them.

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[kmoorevs]

Sorry about that! :) In the interest of keyboard efficiency, the most logical candidates would be: 0: space 1: period 2: semicolon 3: brackets[] Have fun using those! :laugh:

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[Super Lloyd]

Stop wanking and start doing real work! :zzz: Next you'll bother us about {} instead of { } I wonder if there ever was something more pointless? Maybe it's what you argue about when your work doesn't matter, I suppose?!

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[walterhevedeich]

And even better that Ron had put it here, so I would no longer need to open the link.

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[Septimus Hedgehog]

And somebody actually got paid for writing that?

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

Surely that's { } ?

[Stefan_Lang]

I wonder just how much this is influenced by the fact that the english language is all lowercase by default, with very few exceptions. In german, Nouns are always uppercase, that means for a german speaker, a symbol based on german words would be more natural to read if each noun would start with an uppercase letter (e. g. FeldIndex), whereas an english speaker basing his symbol on english nouns would consider it more natural to read it all lowercase (e. g. array_index).

[jsc42]

Just in case (sic) you had wondered, the_underscore_style_of_naming_variables_etc is known as Snake Case.

[Duke Carey]

Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote:

Surely that's

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

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[Lost User]

Super Lloyd wrote:

Maybe it's what you argue about when your work doesn't matter, I suppose?!

Welcome to the discussion. :-D

[Kirk Wood]

Empirical study to prove that the person doing the study had no clue. Early in we find that they included programmers and non programmers in the study. Which raises the question, "Why would someone include an audience the code wasn't meant for?" I will give the person the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know any better. At the end of the day, it is for people. And there is benefit to having the code consistent. And there is benefit to having that consistent state follow that which is least annoying to the audience. (And here is a clue: said audience writes code.

[Gary Huck]

Me? I used underScores. And I use pascal_case. And I use CamelCase. I also use Hungarian notation sometimes. I've found over the years and thousands of lines of code in many languages that there's NO ONE GOOD solution ... to just about any question. I do not, however, use tabs :)

[Gary Huck]

nice :)

[GenJerDan]

Underscores are a pain in the butt if you open the code in anything other than a code editor. The spellchecker underlines the "misspelled" word, and the underscores disappear. :p

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[Luiz Monad]

This study just consider normal people brain, they used "seven undergraduates" from second year, people that aren't programming for long time, if they even program instead of just frequent classes. I am coding for the last ten years, my neural network has adapted to read CamelOrPascal just as fast as this_mode. But nothing is faster than just space, there is only one way to read faster, is to read less.

[TNCaver]

Loctrice is right: ThisIsTitleCase. thisIsCamelCase.

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