We don’t want anything amateur. It has to be a professional codegrammar.

Groucho Marx

Isn’t it strange that a shop is demanding code?

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

• encapsulation and meaningful function names.

I see. So dod could be the same across multiple goals.

How is that different from a goal?

Not being argumentative. Just seeing if I’m missing something.

Doesn’t a definition of done count as a goal?

By writing on the Internet?

Depends. I’ve heard management talk about agile and waterfall, but I’ve not heard even one manager say V model.

So, we need waterfall testing to be separated?

Who’s to say that other people’s preferences are more important than their own,

Because communication is about getting your ideas and opinions into other people’s minds. I may prefer to write in swahili, but my audience prefers English.

particularly given that this particular preference is shared by millions of other people.

Over particular mediums for particular topics, yes the all lowercase preference may dominate. ALL CAPS FOR SHOUTING and miXeD CaPs FoR cRAzY provide excellent emphasis. But history shows that capitalization is an advantage. It was invented during the printing press and stayed as convention.

Here’s some more discussion

Having tried to learn a language (Bengali) that does not use capitals, I can attest to their use. If you’re starting out, how do you tell a name from another noun? Are you talking about chandra (the moon) or Chandra (the common surname)? There are so many cases in every language where common and proper nouns overlap, and having capitalization is very helpful.

It is irrelevant that they don’t believe capitalization aids with clarity.

Communication is about what other people prefer, not what you personally like. And they obviously do want to communicate well

It’s just an extra convention to help communication. But I don’t buy your lazy argument because:-

• it is often performed automatically

and

• you take the time and effort to enhance your communications with punctuation and paragraphs.

No, he said they “need to figure out a different open source strategy”. That is completely different.

Don’t you find capitalisation help to define sentences? It’s much easier to read, particularly at speed.

The Full movie is worth a watch.

“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum”

On error goto 0 

Was always syntacticly confusing for me.

I presume Google and Microsoft are similarly bad.

Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example

• Rings don’t resemble circles

• Fields aren’t literal open spaces

• Normal has about 20 different meanings

• Chaos is not random