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Letter Case

Letter case, in the Latin writing system, in American English, developed in ancient Rome, from cursive handwriting with quills.

• this is lower case
  • this-is-dash-case or kebab-case 📄
  • this_is_snake_case in C and Python 🐍
• This Is Mixed Case or capitalization
  • This is sentence case or capitalization orthography
    • This is Title Case
  • tHiS Is aLtErNaTiNg cAsE in internet culture
  • thisIsCamelCase in Java and JavaScript 🐪
    • ThisIsPascalCase
• THIS IS UPPER CASE or all caps
  • THIS_IS_DRAGON_CASE or CONSTANT_CASE

Dictionary

The 50 years culture of computers, their operating systems and applications, including the 20 years culture of the world wide web, has introduced some new semantics for a few words that overwrite American English. These words apply within software development and computer science.

Byte

byte, octet, char, b; Smallest data possible; 65, 0x41, 00100001;

String

string, text, txt, ascii, plain, str, s; Bytes in a character encoding; "Hello, World!"

• list of character encodings

Environment variable

environment variable, env var, env; String; $PATH

File

file, bytearray, blob, f; Bytes with a name in a filesystem; /cat.png has an extension

• list of filesystems

Directory

directory, dir, d; File of links to other files; /usr/local/

Document

document, doc; File of string(s); *.md, *.html, *.pdf

Executable

executable, dot-exe, binary, bin; File in +x mode; C:\Windows\explorer.exe

Character encoding

character encoding, code page, charset; Map between bytes and symbols (characters); us-ascii

Filesystem

filesystem, fs; File, or data structure, of other files; exFAT, S3

etc. (incomplete list)

More Dictionaries

• http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary
• https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html
• https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary
• https://unicode.org/glossary/
• https://google.aip.dev/9
• https://expressjs.com/en/resources/glossary.html

Copypastas

All Latin Letters

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Placeholder Text

Lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Quaerat dolore facere ipsum eius obcaecati consequuntur earum illum dolorem repellat, porro maxime itaque explicabo soluta quia suscipit tempora inventore eveniet. Excepturi.

Nothing Text

Silence is golden

Typing Monkey

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.