Re: Update on the OraGeeks' Oracle Programming Contest

From: Roby Sherman <rxsherm_at_interealm.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:24:52 -0700
Message-Id: <10732.125901@fatcity.com>

<html><head></head><body>Gregory Conron wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap="">On Fri, 05 Jan 2001, you wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap=""><html><head></head><body>Hi everyone. 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. 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: </pre></blockquote><pre wrap=""> <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).</pre></blockquote>

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

<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap=""> 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. </pre></blockquote>

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

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      <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:F001.0028DFF6.20010105125543_at_fatcity.com"><pre wrap=""><br>&lt;/nitpick&gt;<br><br>oh, and somebody should point out the subtle irony of using pseudo-html tags to<br>being and end a nitpick :)</pre></blockquote>

I think you've said it all here. &lt;grin&gt;<br>


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</body></html> Received on Fri Jan 05 2001 - 15:24:52 CST