Re: Advice on SQL and records

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:28:13 GMT, "David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ucantrade.com.NOTHERE> wrote in message
>news:7ekmg19v5jo9k6k4ghmbc1u0bbgagnc8se_at_4ax.com...

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>> I prefer to have clear meanings. There have been too many
>> arguments here that have been due to differences or misuses in
>> terminology. When you insist that any word is as appropriate as any
>> other, you lose meanings. Newspeak lost a lot of meanings, too.
>
>Well, ok, I'll back off a little. But "language police" invariably obstruct
>clarity of thought rather than facilitating it. That's why I made the
>reference to 1984.

     You are misusing "invariably". Do you really mean with no exceptions whatsoever?

     When a term gets misused, it can cause a lot of trouble. Insisting on the corect word helps avoid these problems. You would probably think it ludicrous if a carpenter used "hammer" and "nail" interchangably, but IT has people who use "database" and "DBMS" interchangably. With enough of this obfuscation, it becomes very difficult to determine what someone is trying to say.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Wed Aug 24 2005 - 22:13:50 CEST