IMHO, Chien-Shiung Wu would have gotten the Nobel Prize had she been male. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu>
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZAD and C/C++ (was:: 2.5 Heads Up) https://secure-web.cisco.com/1PXbV8bBOYAuiVtorpuZs7XE3pKinLwmLYKWPEJUV_PkTrzvWRyNuYDzK47foMg_IwN3TABRuvj8-6d952PU7Pg-fSwtIB4V3NLol2wqOLH_Vh_bIrhLnjTrXt1XW4HVTk9DPjC2uuSEoTeOojHiX-nvU6TI8d5otKWeqR9YnchPqlAF_87McO983XagIQA8zboCCtRKubYkttWZgaBVScNJ1y8ijfkw-96QjeEVIb-tXNTq_SrofW1RJZey9zfWvs4jPYQd59IlyRK6YdTzKvLbBlp0m3xC2UHlW5SDl1WqO-5gs_oQp6vKx5gRBemX90HZeonb5RR1Yvp9oMep7wsNFubNVVj7ErAUUu9IhfukBVrLwevduXMA2F4N1wwH-sZWGfpXU3rqfr-9M3MvnpGM_9fg4GFkuYyb5NRGWqV3O7CI-QrCTqoqu9HKiKviT/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChin-Lung_Hu play for 2 MLB baseball teams. On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:53 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > any ethnicity but their own > > In my much younger days -- the first significant system I ever worked on -- > I wrote a name-indexing scheme that assumed all surnames were at least three > characters long. This was of course back in the day when we worried > obsessively about bytes and CPU cycles. > > Turned out that the client -- Blue Cross of Northern California -- had > hundreds of customers surnamed Ng. > > Oops. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:46 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ZAD and C/C++ (was:: 2.5 Heads Up) > > Metz's Law of Anal Retentive Developers: "Never validate an input field > unless you *KNOW* what the rules are: assumption, belief, habit, urban > legends, etc., don't count!" The world is full of people that "validate" > names without having a clue about any ethnicity but their own and e-mail > addresses when the can't even spell RFC. "An e-mail address is invalid if it > uses characters hat I don't use in mine." or some such idiocy. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
