Re: [GENERAL] pl/pgsql oddity

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Since when is COBOL dead ;-)
Can't say I know that language yet, actually (I did know some Fortran, 
but it's been a while)...

Just because a language is not in common use does not mean it lacks 
value.  Some ideas are so far ahead of their time, they get laughed off 
for a time, then suddenly become so widespread no one would believe 
they were ever looked down on.

(The world *is* flat, right?)
On Dec 16, 2004, at 4:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't get used to Ada.  It's almost as dead as COBOL, though I liked 
it too
for some things.  Oracle plsql is soooo Ada-like I've literally cut and
pasted whole Ada routines into Oracle plsql and they work without
modification.  PostgreSQL doesn't do parameters and packages, so it is
slightly more work to move stuff from your front-end into your 
back-end,
but often worth it.


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"elsif" is the spelling used by Ada.  I'm getting rather used to it,
myself.
I'm really starting to like Ada.  So "elsif" is fine with me.
As far as alternate spellings being accepted within a language, look at
the Transcript language used by Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com),
which is a so-called "Xtalk" language (based on HyperTalk, which was
used by HyperCard; and yes, HyperTalk was like this too...)
-- and # are synonyms (comment delimiters)
abbreviated can be abbreviated as abbr or abbrev  ;-)
audioClip can be abbreviated as ac
accelKey and acceleratorKey
acceleratorModifiers and accelMods
arm and armed
autoHilite and autoHighlight
recentNames and backList
group, background, bg, and bkgnd
The list goes on and On and ON...
On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:27:53PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
I don't know of any other language that permits multiple spellings
for the same construct.  I'd be concerned with starting such a
precedent.
I'd be in favor of making it a bloody law that every bloody language
use the same bloody spelling.  I'm forever forgetting whether a
particular language uses ELSE IF, ELSEIF, ELSIF, or ELIF.  Grumble,
grumble, grumble....
As a relative newbie to PostgreSQL (but an old-timer to programming
languages and other DMBSs) I would certainly vote for allowing elseif.
This is my first encounter of "else" without the terminating "e", and
that would not be a natural omission for me.
--
Guy Rouillier
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