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> In addition, the same name would refer to different things, eg. `abc` and `Abc` and `a_bc` would mean totally different things.

That's not too unusual. In Java `Camel` would usually be a class and `camel` an object, and in Prolog `Camel` is a variable wheras `camel` is an atom. Not sure about R though..?

> And stuff that could be written in a simple Sinatra or Flask application were written in R Shiny.

I don't know R Shiny, but the examples looks neat and simple.[0] Are you sure this is not just a case of "I don't like X" rather than the code being bad?

[0]: https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/basics.html



Well, that nomenclature works well for classes and objects, but if you use mix up cases within an object, I think we call can agree it's really bad code?

As for R Shiny, those examples all look fine, but wasn't the case with my code.




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