Re: OT: Bonusquestion - is the CBO a He, a She, an It, or a hermaphrodite

  • From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:50:41 -0600

Mark,

very nice. I agree with your conclusion; instinctively without having put as much thought or articulation into it. I suppose that triggered the question because the OP referred to Oracle as a "he".

Now for the bonus question in the subject - before Steve shuts the thread down :-)
Here too I have an instinctive opinion.

For an explanation/excuse - it's 30 degrees outside (Celsius - 86 F for our metrically challenged friends in the US of A) which is rather rare up here in the north. I believe my brain has shriveled up and only silly thoughts remained. We're more used to -30 (Celsius = -22 F) as Cary can attest to.

At 04:01 PM 7/31/2005, Mark W. Farnham wrote: 
In Hellenic (Greek/Western) cultural history, the Oracles of Apollo at
Delphi are arguably the preeminent reference of "Oracle."

So I'm thinkin' Oracle is a high flyin' she, which partly explains why she
thinks a zero length string is a null value but simultaneously understands
that a numeric zero is not a null.


Regards

Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com 

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