Re: informix developer tool

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Sorry Art, > You may call them Tools of the trade. > > But nomenclature is important when you need to communicate an idea or > concept. Or: "since I don't have anything useful to say, I'll use arbitrary pedantry in a desperate attempt to win an argument." I get this from my 12-year-old daughter all the time. > > I'm now having to reverse a script I wrote for production because I > did what they said they wanted, not what they really wanted. And of > course, it was a rush job so there wasn't really time to get in to > their head and you had to trust that they knew what they were saying.... > > Yet I digress. > There's a first. > The point is that these are not tools but 'standard' APIs and Languages. > > Its great that you know them, but when someone asks about tools, they > want the IDEs and environments that let you get your work done. Perhaps you should be having a go at the OP for not being precise, too. > > -G > PS. I wasn't the only one who missed the 'red flags'. I'm just the guy > who has to fix it. ;-) > God I am starting to hate unicode. Stop cock-waving. It's really tedious. -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com