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Do you program in SQL? (I've just pressed Shift and released it after I typed SQL, hey) Using Caps Lock for its intended purpose means that it's another mode t
by marinintim 10y ago
Do you program in SQL? (I've just pressed Shift and released it after I typed SQL, hey)
Using Caps Lock for its intended purpose means that it's another mode that you need mental resources to keep track of.
Historical aside that's not related to your comment: early Soviet computers modeled after IBM PC had Latin key, that basically worked like Shift, but it changed layout from Cyrillic to Latin and vice versa. This idea died after MS Windows, that didn't (and still doesn't? I don't know) have this option, took over the market.
- sbuttgereit 10y agoI write quite a lot of SQL and PL/SQL. Yes, I use Caps Lock as intended.
- jimmaswell 10y agoHas anybody seriously been mentally bogged down by confusion from keeping in mind that they have caps lock on? That sounds entirely implausible.
- poopsintub 10y agoMy work Mac boots into windows, while my home Mac uses iOS. The keyboard change wasn't immediate, but it was done. If these people want to try something harder than caps lock and have their minds blown, they should learn to use VIM.
- JBiserkov 10y agoThere is an option in pgAdmin to automatically capitalize keywords. Last I checked though it capitalizes them only in pgAdmin - the actual .sql file is lowercase.
- flukus 10y agoPeople still use all caps for Sql?
- majewsky 10y agoI like to write the keywords in upper case to visually separate them from table/field names.