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Shaker Islam

Of course! This is one of many the "petty" complaints I had.

The usage of uppercase and formatting & such is very subjective. In my view, there's at least a few things to note against the use of uppercase:

  1. Uppercase as a format is much harder to type. Often when we're writing queries, we want to quickly iterate, and even small roadblocks can be frustrating when we want to focus on analysis
  2. While it's true that uppercase was much more common for older programming languages, it's not true for popular programming languages in the past 20 years (that I'm aware of). It's simply not a format that the next generation of analysts & engineers are used to, and we should adjust.