Just saw this in a skymall catalog :)
Commas save lives
Can we eat gramma?
Can we eat, gramma?
Pete Eggebeen
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainframe Storage Management
Kohl's Corporation
(920) 207-0108 (Cell)
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bernd Oppolzer
bernd.oppol...@t-online.dewrote:
I
Peter Eggebeen wrote:
Commas save lives
Of course. If you forget a comma in something like ATCCONxx, your life is in
grave peril.
Can we eat gramma?
Can we eat, gramma?
:-)
Mommy, grandma is awful!
Shutup, hurry up and eat up!
:-)
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:57 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and
exact semantics.
Peter Eggebeen wrote:
Commas save lives
Of course. If you forget a comma in something like ATCCONxx, your life
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:30:13 -0400, Charles Mills wrote:
-- http://www.fun-with-words.com/eats_shoots_leaves_review.html
Somewhat related, there's a strong argument against quiet truncation
of input lines or identifiers to some conventional length. Imagine:
DELETE MY.DATA.SET(MEMBER)
Wow, yeah. That would be Just Plain BAD. If you're gonna truncate, you
can't do it quietly.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:30:13 -0400, Charles Mills wrote:
-- http://www.fun-with-words.com/eats_shoots_leaves_review.html
OK, this isn't really about a computer language. It is a joke from Reader's
Digest, in English. But it makes a good point as to why semantics is
important.
Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get
six.
Husband: OK
Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk
Wife:
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get
six.
Husband: OK
Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk
Wife: What? Why did you get 6 quarts of milk?
Husband: They had avocados.
Obviously the husband is a systems
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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and
exact semantics.
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
And this may have have been reported here, or it may be urban legend:
A shop set a task scheduled, at 0159 on a certain Sunday in Fall, to reset
the localtime to 0059. Employees were astonished to come to work at
0730
At 09:12 -0500 on 08/09/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Why
computer languages need to have specific parsing ru:
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get
six.
Husband: OK
Husband comes back with 6
I think this is called the Halloween problem, which is in some respect
similar:
update emp
set salary = salary * 1.05
where salary 2.0;
in some of the first test releases of System R,
when the index on column salary was used in this update,
the salary of - say - 1 was first updated to
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