Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > >> Mark Townsend said: >> > >> > PL/SQL is actually pretty sublime as a language. >> >> Is that compared to Strine? >> >> -- >> Bye now, >> Obnoxio >> > Actually its pretty primative, considering that C had been around since > '72 and PL/SQL could have gained a great deal from the basic structures. > > Take PL/SQL's looping language. Very primative and clumsy. C: while (expression) { ...block of statements to execute... } PL/SQL: while (expression) loop ... block of statements to execute... end loop; yeah replacing those curly braces with words ... my carpal tunnel syndrome is driving me into early retirement. <g> -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org