There are various popular naming conventions which are common among various languages, the relevance of these conventions comes from , the legacy which they hold and other factors like readability, purpose, programming cababilities, for example , we most follow camelcase for java, for c++ which comes with great capabilities, we use lowercase with underscores, most of the time.
why important ?
there are two main advantage which comes with this,
consistency in the code base – especially you are contributing open source.
readability – with common coding style and following it becomes easy for you to understand the code.
C++ naming convention –
Variables – lowercase with underscores,
Functions – lower case with underscores,
Classes – Pascal case
Constants – uppercase with underscores.
In gist : following the best practices , and guidelines, make the job easier for everyone.
