The etymology question about "Q" has deteriorated into a PI vs Pick
discussion.
In the Pick User GoogleGroup, it's about words that rhyme with "orange".
No one has the definitive historical answer? I thought maybe our
resident historian, Dawn Wolthuis, would notice my "dawning days of
Pick" comment and chime in.
"Quick" is the best anyone has come up with, I guess.
On 9/6/2012 9:19 PM, Charles Stevenson wrote:
A newbie stumped me: Why are "Q-Pointers" "Q" pointers ?
The "Q" lingo comes from the dawning days of Pick.
Why was the letter "Q" chosen?
"A"ttribute makes sense.
"S"ynonym makes sense.
"PQ" for Prestored Query makes sense. PR for Proc would have
been better.
D3 User Guide just says,
"Q-pointers are used in account master dictionaries to point to
other files."
UV User Ref says,
"Q-pointers are file definition synonyms that point to files in
local and remote UniVerse accounts."
Jonathon Sisk's "Pick Pocket Guide" doesn't help, either.
PI never had Q-pointers. Clif, did Devcom consider it "Q"uestionable?
I posed the same question on Pick Users GoogleGroup, but I didn't
get a really satisfactory answer, yet.
I'll bet someone here on the U2-List knows the true answer.
Chuck Stevenson
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