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Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap
Senior Member
Username: lgoodrob

Post Number: 88
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 08:53 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

I am sharing a new word I learned from some copyeditors last night: CamelCased.
Examples include MasterFormat, FedEx, etc..., usually used as a branding strategy.
Vivian Volz, RA, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: vivianvolz

Post Number: 132
Registered: 06-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 08:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

How nice to know there's a word for that!
Tim Werbstein, AIA, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: tim_werbstein

Post Number: 30
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 08:19 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Wikipedia's explanation notwithstanding, I have found the following explanations more common:

"Camel Casing" is when the first letter of the term or "word" is lowercase but the first letter of each subsequent component is capitalized; e.g., "camelCasedTerm"

"Pascal Casing" is when the first letter of the term or "word" and the first letter of each subsequent component are capitalized; e.g., "PascalCasedTerm"
Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap
Senior Member
Username: lgoodrob

Post Number: 92
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 08:37 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Oh what a nerdy group are we.
Thank you all.
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski

Post Number: 1111
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 09:59 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

I've learned something new today - can I go home now?
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: bunzick

Post Number: 1244
Registered: 03-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 01:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Wow! Pascal! Does anyone code in that language anymore? And I never new when I was tinkering in C and Visual Basic I was using "Pascal Case."
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski

Post Number: 1112
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 02:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

John, I'm not sure that anyone outside of this forum even knows that Pascal was anything other than a mathematician...
James M. Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: jsandoz

Post Number: 72
Registered: 06-2005


Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 08:24 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Lynn, I wouldn't be surprised if only a very small portion of those outside this forum had any knowledge of either the programming language or the mathematician.
Justatim
Advanced Member
Username: justatim

Post Number: 5
Registered: 04-2010
Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 08:38 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

You ain't heard nothin' yet. Pascal is also a unit of pressure measurement in the SI (International System). Also, that notable Frenchman has his own law, "Pascal's Law."

Lynn, You may now go home and take off the next two days.
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski

Post Number: 1113
Registered: 07-2002


Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 09:33 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Don't forget his triangle!
1
1 1
1 2 1

And so on...
Justatim
Senior Member
Username: justatim

Post Number: 6
Registered: 04-2010
Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 10:35 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Wow! A case, a law, a triangle, a pyramid too, and what else? What has Pascal NOT done?
Richard Howard, AIA CSI CCS SCIP LEED-AP
Senior Member
Username: rick_howard

Post Number: 244
Registered: 07-2003


Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 10:59 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

and Pascal celery
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: bunzick

Post Number: 1246
Registered: 03-2002
Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 11:16 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

But, I'm pretty sure that "Pascal Case" was derived from computer programming, not pressure, mathematics or crudite.
George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA
Senior Member
Username: geverding

Post Number: 559
Registered: 11-2004


Posted on Friday, October 01, 2010 - 12:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

If memory serves, he was also a philosopher and theologian. Seems like he could have become a specifier too.

(Ah, the curse of a liberal arts education)
George A. Everding AIA CSI CCS CCCA
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
St. Louis, MO

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