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-----Original Message----- From: Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:47:03 To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups Juliet on her Balcony - Star Trek TNG Episode Darmark On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > This has been so off topic for so long I don't mind this: I was thinking, at > some point during some sort of stupid thing I had to do when I was bored to > tears: What would SQL be like if it were developed in Finnish? > > Or any other human language to any other computer language. > > Select age, boyfriend_status, phone_number > From Cool_People_Table > where Sex = 'F'; > > It gets me all Lewis Carroll just thinking about it. I cannot even imagine > how to create something like that SQL in Finnish. Something so simple as > that, I cannot even think how a computer could parse it written in an > agglutinative language. Though I am a bear of very little brain, so I'm sure > it could be done. :-) > > So to bring it a bit back on to topic, English can be weird, but sometimes > quite useful in its own way. > > Lindy > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:16 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups > > Yea, but paper tape is hell to reuse! <grin> I guess it was the original WORM > tape media. But that WORM tape is not the same as tape worm. What a weird > language English is. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] >> On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield >> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:10 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups >> >> Paper tape is even cheaper, but I'm just being a smart a$$. :-) >> >> But seriously, I think that must be wrong if so many people are >> getting rid of tape drives. But honestly, I haven't a clue about this >> stuff at all other than just thinking about it and reading posts. >> >> Lindy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
