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"I hate camelCasing"

Unless camelCasing shot your pa, this seems like a waste of perfectly servicable animosity.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of times where the standard is little more than a person with petty power turning their personal preferences into an enforced standard. There are also times when standards are applied to workflows that don't need standards because the product will never be touched again.

Plenty of organizations have standards because it looks good on a list of QA practices. Only a subset of those organizations enforce them with a sustained effort.

I mean I hate camelCase as an enforced standard. I use it when it feels useful. I use underscores as well when I think they are fit. I just don't like being one standard of absolute truth for a company

under_scores, camelCase

The fight will be vicious because the stakes are so small.

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