Message-Id: <10732.125902@fatcity.com> From: "Roby Sherman" Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:25:04 -0700 Subject: Re: Update on the OraGeeks' Oracle Programming Contest Gregory Conron wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001, you wrote:

<html><head></head><body>Hi everyone.<br>
<br>

I'm pleased to announce that our new Oracle programming contest called "Twenty-Somethings"
is under way! We've already had over 75*very* interesting submissions, but
we're looking for some more before this first round of our new semi-perpetual
contest comes to a close.<br>
<br>

What are Twenty-Somethings you ask? It's a program, procedure, query, Etc.,
written in Oracle SQL or PL/SQL&nbsp; in twenty (20) lines of code or less. Programs
will be judged on:<br>
<br>


<nitpick>

1) Shouldn't it be called 'teensomethings' since it is 20 lines or less
(20somethings infers less than thirty, as 20 is not a twentysom!
ething, it is
twenty).

ugh. There's one in every crowd. :)


2) HTML email? On an email list for Oracle (which runs on many un*x
platforms and thus the dba's often use non-html email clients)? For shame.

Sorry. That's what I get for using a nightly Mozilla build. :) It tends to act unpredictably. :) :)


</nitpick>

oh, and somebody should point out the subtle irony of using pseudo-html tags to
being and end a nitpick :)

I think you've said it all here. <grin>