Re: Insider #67: Highlights: IDS 10 - IBM's flagship database for pureOLTP and Industrial-strength, embedded computing
Reply to an Insider #67 newsletter about IDS 10. The posts only joke about the word 'debuted' and English usage; Captain Pedantic, Obnoxio The Clown and Serge Rielau took part. No Informix content.
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>> In January 2006, IBM debuted .. "Debuted". A verb form of debut. Now I've read it all! What *are* these barbarians doing to our beautiful language?
Captain Pedantic said: > >>> In January 2006, IBM debuted .. > > "Debuted". A verb form of debut. Now I've read it all! > What *are* these barbarians doing to our beautiful language? Hollywoodising it. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Captain Pedantic said: > >>>>In January 2006, IBM debuted .. >> >>"Debuted". A verb form of debut. Now I've read it all! >>What *are* these barbarians doing to our beautiful language? > > > Hollywoodising it. > MS Word (official guardian of the English ganguage ;-) likes "debuted".. it red-squiggles "Hollywoodising" though Uhm.. it green-squiggles "red-squiggles"... oh dear Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, Windows IBM Toronto Lab
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Captain Pedantic said: > >>>>In January 2006, IBM debuted .. >> >>"Debuted". A verb form of debut. Now I've read it all! >>What *are* these barbarians doing to our beautiful language? > > > Hollywoodising it. > > MS Word (official guardian of the English language ;-) likes "debuted".. it red-squiggles "Hollywoodising" though Uhm.. it green-squiggles "red-squiggles"... oh dear -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, Windows IBM Toronto Lab