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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m a rebel. I write all my sql in lowercase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah we have IDEs to color keywords for us these days. Caps is just extra work

[–] diemartin 4 points 15 hours ago

Capital letters are bigger, thus they use bigger bytes and use too much disk space and memory. That's why most programming languages use lowercase, and why the most common loop variable is i.

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