EdStevens wrote:
> gazzag wrote:
>> Steve Howard wrote:
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> Have some spam yourself meetritumail7_at_yahoo.co.in
>>> Is it just me, or is anyone else getting progressively more
>>> annoyed...not at SPAM...but at this gibberish of a letter for a
>>> complete word. Look at the subject of this SPAM.
>>>
>>> I honestly think I could have stood ebonics more easily than I could
>>> this crap. What's really crazy is finding computer people who use it;
>>> individuals who are held to the letter of syntax law for a living, and
>>> then can't manage to add an "a" and an "e" to an "r" to form the word
>>> "are"...they are four keys apart on the keyboard!!!
>>>
>>> I think I will start writing PLSQL, when I have to, like this...
>>>
>>> dklar
>>> l numbr;
>>> bgin
>>> 4 i in 1..100 lup
>>> dbms_output.put_line('r u gettin it?');
>>> end lup;
>>> end;
>>> /
>>>
>>> Maybe we should sue Oracle for not respecting our own "language", and
>>> allowing us to type PLSQL as we wish...
>>>
>>> Back to my coffee...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Steve
>> Steve,
>>
>> This has become a major bugbear of mine where I work. A lot of the
>> so-called IT people I work with, managers in particular, don't seem to
>> have an IT bone in their body. It's as if their attitude is "Hey, I've
>> got a PC running Windows at home, how hard can it be to be an IT
>> professional?"
>>
>> I find people around me frequently interchanging the words "dev",
>> "test" and "train", say. A developer will e-mail me asking me to put
>> something onto "train", for example. When I check that they didn't in
>> fact mean "test", they look at me like I'm nit-picking, shrug and say
>> "Yeah, whatever!"
>>
>> I think that one of my more recent favourites was from a
>> project-manager who has been promoted far beyond her rank. While I was
>> setting up a database as the backend to the application she was tasked
>> with implementing, I asked when it was to go live.
>>
>> She replied "It *is* live."
>>
>> I said "Huh?"
>>
>> She said "Well, it's live but it just hasn't been rolled out to any
>> users yet."
>>
>> I said "Well, that's not live. Pilot, maybe, but not live."
>>
>> She just rolled her eyes and looked at her colleague in a "he's always
>> splitting hairs that one" kind of way.
>>
>> It infuriates me. It's a computer. It deals in zero or one. Simple.
>> They are not interchangeable.....! And they wonder why everything
>> f%$&*g breaks...
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> I'll have some of that coffee if there's any going spare :)
>
> My former, but not missed, partner was bad about playing loose with the
> language. "rollback, redo .... you know what I meant ... it's just
> symantics." I told him that he'd get awfully nervous if his doctor
> said "appendix, liver .. it's just symantics." I'm currently having
> the same problem all around me with techs and managers alike over
> 'backup' vs. 'export'. Glad to hear it's not just me.
Not just you. And add to your list instance and database. They are two
very different things.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 13:23:46 CDT
