+1 for BookKeeper

Regards,
Uma

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Ivan Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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