Rainmaker writes:
> >This reminds of the SQL debate. I recall my brother-in-law talking
> >about SEQUEL and I wasn't too sure what he was talking about. My
> >first inclination was to pronounce it as ESS QUE ELL. I do believe I
> >am "right" in my inclination.
I've been told (back in the days when I worked for a company that
wrote an RDBMS engine that ran on 28 different platforms) that the
"SeQueL" pronounciation is an IBM thing. Over the last six or so
years, experience has borne that out, at least to the extent that most
of the folks I've met who pronounce it that way got their initial
experience in the IBM world. I have vague memories of being told that
the IBM contingent on the SQL design committee came up with that
pronounciation and pushed hard for it.
Most of the serious geeks that I know spell out the acronym, but
then again most of the serious geeks that I know got their start in
the UNIX world.
Steven J. Owens
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(P.S. I'm currently on a contract in Pasadena, LA, if anybody has any
suggestions for places to see, things to do, etc).
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