> I find "balance-sheet" to be generally nicer to read than "balanceSheet"
Me too, and I've wondered if it's because it's activating the same part of my brain that gets aggravated when people decide to use capitals on seemingly random words within the sentence.
To me it's almost cognitively dissonant to see a capitalized letter in the middle of a word. In written language grammars, we have only capitals at the beginnings of new sentences (new ideas), so my brain sees camelcase terms and wants to separate the words into separate terms.
Also, it feels morally wrong that the first word typically doesn't get the capitalization (and often languages ask/require programmers to follow some arbitrary first letter capitalization rules...). Yes, that's right, it's about ethics in programming language design.
Me too, and I've wondered if it's because it's activating the same part of my brain that gets aggravated when people decide to use capitals on seemingly random words within the sentence.