2026-07-29 15:07 UTC
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
There was no use for it, before computers began regarding the space character as special, dividing "communication tokens" (words).
That created a need to have your favourite term become a single token that can't be mistaken for two words.
By a computer.
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@kcoyle@mstdn.social 2026-07-29 15:25
@RoyBrander@urbanists.social @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org This is an area where speakers of German have an advantage, able to create a single (sometimes overly long) word where English uses separate words to communication a concept. Also, there's no camel case in the non-alphabetic languages like Chinese. In those there would be no difference between camelCase and camelcase.