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I guess it's all a bit subjective. I don't dislike underscores and can happily use them if mandated but camelCase keeps long descriptive variable names shorter which is why I prefer it.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^4: Improve readability of Perl code. Naming reference variables.
by nysus (Parson) on Feb 09, 2017 at 01:05 UTC
    It's totally subjective. Whether warranted or not, camel case reminds me of Microsoft code. Underscores remind me of old school programming. I also think camel case is harder to read. Though camel case does take fewer keystrokes to execute. I'll give you that.

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      Though camel case does take fewer keystrokes to execute. I'll give you that.

      Only if your keyboard doesn't have a Useless Key™ which you've remapped to be a single-keystroke underscore. :-)

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