Snakes vs Camels

[Mike Austin]

I've been doing JavaScript/TypeScript for so long that I haven't seen snake case in a long time (I don't use Python). With my little c++ database toy, I started with camelCase and extended it to the db column names. They did not look good. They look all scrunched and blurry.

id   teamId   sortOrder   teamKeySeqId

==== ======== =========== ============

id   team_id   sort_order   team_key_seq_id

==== ========= ============ ===============

Being so used to camelCase I guess I didn't mind. But looking at the difference, I would say snake_case is easier to scan.

The oldest topic, and I'm bringing it up. :) It may be easier to convert to Title Case also for converting to friendly names.

ID   Team ID   Sort Order   Team Key Seq ID

==== ========= ============ ===============

[Raoul Duke]

on us keyboards, dash is the best since it is easiest to type :-)

[David Barbour]

Kebab case is nice in contexts where '-' isn't an infix subtraction operator. But '_' is a better representation of spacing within a name, IMO. Works nicely for big numbers, too, e.g. `1_000_000`. 

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 7:38 PM Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:

on us keyboards, dash is the best since it is easiest to type :-)

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[Mike Austin]

Yes, kebab / dash – LISP, Scheme, Dylan, HTML, CSS, etc. If white-space is required between identifiers, it's doable.

https://opendylan.org/intro-dylan/expressions-variables.html#:~:text=infix%20operators%2C%20such%20as%20addition%2C%20subtraction%20and%20equality%2C%20must%20be%20surrounded%20by%20whitespace