Slight drift, but it reminded me of my college days. For whatever reason, I got it in my head that language, as in computer, was spelled lanquage (that's a "q"). In a English technical writing class I wrote a short paper discussing various computer languages. I used the incorrect spelling throughout the paper.
When the paper was returned to me, I was happy to have received an A-, but with a short note in red. The professor wrote that she was preparing to give me a C+ because of the many spelling errors. But just to be sure that we in computer science didn't have our own way of spelling things, she called the college computer center director and asked him how language was spelled. He concurred with my misspelling, thus my A- on the paper. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Longabaugh, Robert E Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Terminology - Datasets It is two words at CA as well. Bob Longabaugh CA Technologies Storage Management -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Terminology - Datasets Skip wrote: > Since the term 'data set' (is it one or two words?) is pretty much confined > to mainframe... Since you asked: IBM created the term, and in IBM-land it's two words. I have an autocorrect set so I don't think about it most of the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN FIRST TENNESSEE Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
