In an earlier column ("Creating Useful Naming Conventions: Technical Considerations"), I looked at the benefits that naming conventions have historically provided to individual developers in ...

And naming conventions must be a good thing -- after all, there are so many of them. However, naming conventions aren't free; developers have to learn them and think about them when coding.

They also use different text editors on different operating systems. Understandably, each one of them therefore has its preferred coding / naming convention and indent style.

The wikipedia article on computer program naming conventions is a good starting point, where you can dig into the nitty gritty of Hungarian notation like bFlag, case separated names like camelCase ...