Re: How to efficiently make an "history" ?
From: Harlan Messinger <zzzhmessinger_at_erols.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:30:50 -0400
Message-ID: <9mm7ju$7im$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>
> Harlan Messinger <zzzhmessinger_at_erols.com> wrote:
> : "Todd Gillespie" <toddg_at_linux128.ma.utexas.edu> wrote in message
> :> kesako <kesako_at_mail.com> wrote:
> :> : Why are you seem allergic to the "field" word? We both seem to
> : understand
> :> : what it means and I don't see a possible confusion with something in
> : SQL.
> :>
> :> Celko has made a living by being accurate.
>
> : Where was the inaccuracy? If one says "car" instead of "automobile", is
one
> : being inaccurate? Accuracy doesn't demand the existence of only one term
per
> : concept. It also doesn't demand using the term that happens to have been
> : contrived for a particular area of discussion rather than the generic
one
> : that existed long before.
>
> If one says "car" instead of "automobile", and one is speaking LISP, then
> yes, one is being inaccurate.
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:30:50 -0400
Message-ID: <9mm7ju$7im$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>
"Todd Gillespie" <toddg_at_linux128.ma.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:9mm3sk$kbt$1_at_geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
> Harlan Messinger <zzzhmessinger_at_erols.com> wrote:
> : "Todd Gillespie" <toddg_at_linux128.ma.utexas.edu> wrote in message
> :> kesako <kesako_at_mail.com> wrote:
> :> : Why are you seem allergic to the "field" word? We both seem to
> : understand
> :> : what it means and I don't see a possible confusion with something in
> : SQL.
> :>
> :> Celko has made a living by being accurate.
>
> : Where was the inaccuracy? If one says "car" instead of "automobile", is
one
> : being inaccurate? Accuracy doesn't demand the existence of only one term
per
> : concept. It also doesn't demand using the term that happens to have been
> : contrived for a particular area of discussion rather than the generic
one
> : that existed long before.
>
> If one says "car" instead of "automobile", and one is speaking LISP, then
> yes, one is being inaccurate.
Good point. :-D
>
> Context.
>
> I was only answering kesako's question as to why Celko avoided 'field',
> the answer of which is that that is Celko's habit, accuracy and
> throughness.
Celko personal avoidance of the term wasn't in question. It was that he chastised kesako for using the term. Received on Thu Aug 30 2001 - 22:30:50 CEST