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Re: Update on the OraGeeks' Oracle Programming Contest

From: Roby Sherman <rxsherm_at_interealm.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:24:52 -0700
Message-Id: <10732.125901@fatcity.com>


<html><head></head><body>Gregory Conron wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap="">On Fri, 05 Jan 2001, you wrote:<br></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Hi everyone.&lt;br&gt;<br>&lt;br&gt;<br><br>I'm pleased to announce that our new Oracle programming contest called "Twenty-Somethings"<br>is under way! We've already had over 75*very* interesting submissions, but<br>we're looking for some more before this first round of our new semi-perpetual<br>contest comes to a close.&lt;br&gt;<br>&lt;br&gt;<br><br>What are Twenty-Somethings you ask? It's a program, procedure, query, Etc.,<br>written in Oracle SQL or PL/SQL&amp;nbsp; in twenty (20) lines of code or less. Programs<br>will be judged on:&lt;br&gt;<br>&lt;br&gt;<br></pre></blockquote><pre wrap=""><!----><br>&lt;nitpick&gt;<br><br>1) Shouldn't it be called 'teensomethings' since it is 20 lines or less<br>(20somethings infers less than thirty, as 20 is not a twentysom! ething, it is<br>twenty).</pre></blockquote>

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ugh. There's one in every crowd. :) <br>

    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap=""><br>2) HTML email? On an email list for Oracle (which runs on many un*x<br>platforms and thus the dba's often use non-html email clients)? For shame.<br></pre></blockquote>       <br>

Sorry. That's what I get for using a nightly Mozilla build. :) It tends to act unpredictably. :) :)<br>

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      <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap=""><br>&lt;/nitpick&gt;<br><br>oh, and somebody should point out the subtle irony of using pseudo-html tags to<br>being and end a nitpick :)</pre></blockquote>

I think you've said it all here. &lt;grin&gt;<br>

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</body></html> Received on Fri Jan 05 2001 - 15:24:52 CST

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