> It's easier to read the source code with uppercase keywords. This is aesthetics, I won't claim that what I'm saying is more than a (perhaps popular) subjecti

> It's easier to read the source code with uppercase keywords. This is aesthetics, I won't claim that what I'm saying is more than a (perhaps popular) subjective opinion. But I will point out that at least the way I read programs, the KEYWORDS are the OPPOSITE of what I want to EMPHASIZE when reading code. I actually want the keywords to disappear so that my eyes can focus on the variable names and see the data flow. That, by the way, is also why punctuation to mark blocks { ... } is so much easier for me to visually parse than BEGIN ... END.