Re: [ANNOUNCE] Senora: a replacement for sqlplus

Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> writes:

> fvanbortel_at_netscape.net said...
> > Hans Forbrich wrote:
> > >>Cool! And in English, we've adopted a few German words ... like the
> > >>Southern California fast-food chain, der Wienerschnitzel ... they need a
> > >>very long building to display their name. Why do Germans feel compelled
> > >>to string a dozen words together into one word? <vbg> Hopefully, my
> > >
> > >
> > > Because it's much simpler.
> > >
> > > You take the paragraph that describes an object, trim white space and
> > > capitalize. Then you don't need to spend any time teaching what the new
> > > thing is - it basically comes with a built-in definition & possibly even a
> > > built-in manual.
> > >
> > > One negative side effect ... we (of German background) do tend to be verbose
> > > and go on and on and .......
> > >
> >
> > Patentzuckerluxusbonbonmitedelholzhandgriffe...
> > Hauptstaatseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber...
> > Grossrechner, schnittstelle, Datenverarbeitungsanlage
> >
> Wow! Exactly! Can you just see the SELECT statement:
>
> select Patentzuckerluxusbonbonmitedelholzhandgriffe
> from Hauptstaatseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber
> where Grossrechner = Datenverarbeitungsanlage;
>
> Not knowing multi-syllabic German, I'm not sure what I just selected!
> German newspapers must love justifying lines with words like those. :)

I think you'd get a table doesn't exist error. I'm pretty sure the original poster meant to use:

Hauptstadtseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber

Unless using Hauptstaat... instead of Hauptstadt... was a Freudian slip :-) i.e "...ueber alles" etc.

(I'm afraid only german speakers will understand most of this)

cheers

Phil Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 18:42:25 CDT