Re: Oracle 10G

Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-be-em.com> wrote in message news:<c2munb$56p$3@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>... > mpruet wrote: > > > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<c2id12$1tm8qo$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>... > > > >>"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message > >>news:c2ibki$1t6tda$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de... > >> > >>>"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message > >>>news:1078445795.713139@yasure... > >> > >> > >> > >>>Perhaps this is an extension of a point I've made previously, of surprise > >>>that US-only job hostings always specify a computing degree. This is > >>>unusual in the UK: even if a graduate is required a degree in maths, > >> > >> physics > >> > >>>(such as I have) or even an arts subject will be acceptable. > >> > >>Just in case anyone is reading, I meant to write: " ...even if a graduate > >>is required a degree in maths, physics (such as I have) or even an arts > >>subject will *often* be acceptable." > > > > > > Whew! I certainly hope so - expecially since -- well -- my advanced > > degrees were in musicology. Of course - we spent a lot of time doing > > set theory, developing computer analysis software, acoustical > > analysis, etc. My first programming pride and joy was when I figured > > out how to simulate musical encoding using a system that allowed me to > > maintain the difference between a c-sharp and a d-flat, so that it > > could distinguish between a dominant-7th and a German-6th chord, or > > could recognize the difference between a ii-#5-b6 and a > > flat-VII-Mm7... > > > > Of course we also spent a good deal of time studying Boethesus, Niedt, > > Kernberger, and such as well... ;-) > > > > M.P. > > Hmm, sooo... it's the need for harmony that drove you into HDR. Well -- since I spent so much time doing countrapuntal and fugal analysis as well as harmonic analysis, I can multitask pretty well. And since I spent so much time doing Schencker and musical forms analysis, my concept of encapuslation and structured logic is fairly tight. I grew up performing object oriented logic. ;-)