When I was in college, we had a Pascal compiler that would insert code for
you. If you left off a semi-colon (the most common mistake), the compiler
would issue a warning stating "Missing semi-colon, assumed" and go on its
way. This was on a DEC VAX/VMS system in the late 1980's (1985 - 1988).
Guy Hammond wrote:
> Very dangerous. Like, Captain Kirk might say, "Mr. Spock, cancel the
> self destruct sequence" so Mr. Spock goes to his SQL*Plus terminal and
> types:
>
> SQL> ALTER STARSHIP SET AUTODESTRUCT
>
> But at that moment, Dr McCoy walks in, slips in a puddle of Romulan Ale
> and grabs Mr. Spock for support, whose finger slips on to the ENTER key.
> The Enterprise replies:
>
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-435334: keyword not found where expected, substituting ON to
> continue...
>
> :0)
>
> g
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:46 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> Funny. I liked the self-referential acronym bit. I don't like
> computers
> (or computer languages or OSs) that "know" what I want to do but refuse
> to
> do it. An example from our own wonderful SQLPlus:
>
> SQL> select table_name sys.dba_tables;
> select table_name sys.dba_tables
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
>
> Now why doesn't it just put the "FROM" in and get on with it? It
> "knows"
> what's missing!! Is it doing this to embarrass and annoy me or am I
> just
> being paranoid (and if I'm going to be "nuts" I'd rather be paranoid
> than a
> single-noid).
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