Hi folks,

Now that we are going top level, we have a chance to fix something
that has been bugging me since I started working on the project; the
superfluously capitalization of K in the name. The word 'bookkeeper'
is a single word. The norms of capitalization, in written language,
and also in CamelCase, dictate that only the first letter of a word
should ever be capitalized. What's more, since people are familiar
with this, the lean towards doing this, only remembering to add the K
some of the time. So we end up in the following situation.

ivank@trainmoney-ll ~/src/bookkeeper Thu Oct
23 10:45:31 [0 jobs] [hist 10099]
$ find . -name *.java -exec grep Bookkeeper {} \; | wc -l
763
ivank@trainmoney-ll ~/src/bookkeeper Thu Oct
23 10:45:36 [0 jobs] [hist 10100]
$ find . -name *.java -exec grep BookKeeper {} \; | wc -l
682

In the code, Bookkeeper is actually more common.

The word bookkeeper is hard enough to type, with 3 consecutive double
letters, without having a random capitalization in the middle.

Does this annoy anyone else? Should we kill the K?

Regards
Ivan

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