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    Except in some languages the case of the first letter is significant syntax-wise. Commented Aug 10, 2011 at 19:54
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    ...and it violates the cultural quasi-standard established in many languages. Commented Aug 10, 2011 at 21:45
  • Hungarian Notation is far more obfuscating that CamelCase...;-) Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 18:31
  • @Karl: obviously the suggestion is limited to the confines of the language. Did you know that Java can start variable names with a dollar sign? I've seen Java code that looks like PHP, it was obvious where the previous programmer learned to program! Commented Aug 28, 2011 at 15:58
  • @dotancohen: I remember looking at a pascal program in a hobby magazine many years ago, when pascal was just making the scene. It was glaringly obvious from the structure of the code (and the fact that they used global variables to pass values to subroutines and functions) that the program was one of the best basic programs I've ever seen written Pascal. ;-) Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 3:16