Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!fernwood!oracle!news From: tgreenla@oracle.uucp (Terry Greenlaw) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: SQL Poser Message-ID: <1990Jun7.234339.10192@oracle.com> Date: 7 Jun 90 23:43:39 GMT References: <6588@umd5.umd.edu> <1990Jun1.132731.6699@oracle.com> <1990Jun4.151555.3479@oracle.com> Reply-To: tgreenla@oracle.UUCP (Terry Greenlaw) Organization: Oracle Corporation, Atlanta, GA Lines: 31 In article jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes: >tgreenla@oracle.uucp (Terry Greenlaw) writes: > >>it's name will be SQL II. > >Someone asked McCarthy what programming language would be like >in thirty years. He said, in effect, "I don't know what they'll >be like but they'll call it FORTRAN". > Sounds to me like he pretty much hit the nail right on the head. ForTran is still around in force, like it or not. For that matter, CoBOL has been carbon-dated at approx. Big Bang minus 4.5 million years and even our friend C is pushing 20. What I've learned is that I'd rather predict the stock market than anything with the word "COMPUTER" in it. >Have we learned nothing? > >Jonathan Krueger jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger >Drop in next time you're in the tri-planet area! As far as learning nothing goes, I really think C was the language that I picked up the concept of nothing from. Good thing we don't still use Roman numerals, or we'd never be able to get at that first array element. But then again, I could be making Much Ado About Nothing ;-} Terry O. Greenlaw Sheathed within the Walkman, Staff Engineer Wear a halo of distortion. Oracle Corporation Aural contraceptive, tgreenla@oracle.oracle.com Aborting pregnant conversation - Marillion