Re: informix and oracle (fwd)

Joe Lumbley wins the award for being the first to guess the nature of the bug that caused me to erroneously post that I had had 125 years of database experience. There follows his message and my reply explaining the TRUE cause of that unfortunate error. And to those of you with little imagination, no it was not just a simple typo, after 125 years I no longer make those! Damn, there it goes again, I will fix that program real-soon-now! Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:51:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> To: Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> Subject: Re: informix and oracle On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Joe Lumbley wrote: > In article <34B14C0C.2963@bloomberg.com> you wrote: > <snip> > > : I have been working with database server products for over 125 years. I > ^^^ > C'mon Art. I don't have any problems with inflating a resume a little, > but I'll bet even a hiring manager would have problems believing this... ;) > > Reminds me of a joke I heard. A 39-year-old attorney dies and somehow ends > up going to heaven. He gets to the gate and starts arguing with St. Peter. > "St. Peter....there's been a big mistake. I'm too young to die." > St. Peter looks at his book, then at the attorney, and says "Says here that > you were supposed to live until 67. It's true that you don't **look** > 67, but...." > > "Well, there's the problem St. Peter. Somebody screwed up my age. Look at > me. I'm only 39. How'd you guys figure I was 67?" > > "We just added up your time slips." Something similar happened here! I drop my experience so often that I've had to create a program to auto enter it for me. Well, to make a short story longer, the newest release of experience.c had a bug that added up my bug reports to calculate my years of experience, and, well, there were all of those 7.1x reports, and so, ... :-) Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com