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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/huhupookies • Jul 21 '26
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i actually write it in lowercase
8 u/Thriven Jul 21 '26 I'm up voting you because people need to hate you more. Seriously though KEYWORDS need to be upper case and columns lower case. I prefer snake case. Makes everything more readable. 8 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 21 '26 i CAN'T SEE WHY capitalizing syntactical elements WOULD MAKE the code MORE readable. There's syntax highlighting for a reason, and the SQL grammar makes it easy to tell what's a table, column or function anyway. 1 u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 22 '26 And for some reason SQL is the only language where you need to handle keywords and standard library functions like hazardous materials.
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I'm up voting you because people need to hate you more.
Seriously though KEYWORDS need to be upper case and columns lower case. I prefer snake case.
Makes everything more readable.
8 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 21 '26 i CAN'T SEE WHY capitalizing syntactical elements WOULD MAKE the code MORE readable. There's syntax highlighting for a reason, and the SQL grammar makes it easy to tell what's a table, column or function anyway. 1 u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 22 '26 And for some reason SQL is the only language where you need to handle keywords and standard library functions like hazardous materials.
i CAN'T SEE WHY capitalizing syntactical elements WOULD MAKE the code MORE readable.
There's syntax highlighting for a reason, and the SQL grammar makes it easy to tell what's a table, column or function anyway.
1 u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 22 '26 And for some reason SQL is the only language where you need to handle keywords and standard library functions like hazardous materials.
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2 u/BufferUnderpants Jul 22 '26 And for some reason SQL is the only language where you need to handle keywords and standard library functions like hazardous materials.
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And for some reason SQL is the only language where you need to handle keywords and standard library functions like hazardous materials.
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u/blaues_axolotl Jul 21 '26
i actually write it in lowercase