I guess I'll have to resign myself to not knowing why some people program in "C" as opposed to C or JAVA as opposed to Java.

Some people always write their surname in ALL-CAPS, too, and I never understood that, either.

But it isn't so much that I don't understand. I don't understand a lot of things. It's that nobody else seems to understand, either. Even the ones who do it. Or they've all taken a vow to keep this information from the rest of us.

> Some people always write their surname in ALL-CAPS, too, and I never understood that, either.

Because different cultures order the components of their names differently, and writing the surname in all-caps indicates which is which.

Easy there, pal. I think people write "C" because the letter C alone looks odd in a plain English sentence.

That doesn't fully explain what I've observed, and your condescension is not appreciated.