Editing Camel case (section)

== History ==

The earliest known occurrence of the term "InterCaps" on Usenet is in an April 1990 post to the group <kbd>alt.folklore.computers</kbd> by Avi Rappoport.<ref>{{cite newsgroup | last=Rappoport|first=Avi | title = compoundNames | date = 3 April 1990 | newsgroup = alt.folklore.computers | url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/YJkZHyxOCYQ/m/PjETuOUy8yEJ}}</ref> The earliest use of the name "Camel Case" occurs in 1995, in a post by Newton Love.<ref>{{cite web|author=Newton Love |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.advocacy/msg/ab3c8107c6e150fa |title=I'm happy again! – comp.os.os2.advocacy &#124; Google Groups |website=Groups.google.com |date=12 September 1995 |access-date=23 May 2009}}</ref> Love has since said, "With the advent of programming languages having these sorts of constructs, the humpiness of the style made me call it HumpyCase at first, before I settled on CamelCase. I had been calling it CamelCase for years. ... The citation above was just the first time I had used the name on USENET."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sluug.org/~newt/ |title=Newton Love |website=Saint Louis Unix Users Group }}{{dead link|date=January 2017}}</ref> The term "Pascal Case" was coined in design discussions for the [[.NET Framework]], first released in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Abrams |first1=Brad |title=History around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/sv-se/archive/blogs/brada/history-around-pascal-casing-and-camel-casing |website=learn.microsoft.com |access-date=1 February 2025 |language=en-us |date=3 February 2004}}</ref>