variable naming...

[Steve Holden]

"Bruce Elrick" <belrick at home.com> wrote ...
>
> Steve Holden wrote:
> >
> > "Owen F. Ransen" <ransen_spam_me_not at nemo.it> wrote in ...
> > > Ah...a good reason at last...none of the "Microsoft
> > > does it so we don't!" objections. :)
> > >
> > That's usually a knee-jerk reaction, but not always a safe one. We
should
> > remember that Microsoft have done some good things (ODBC and DHCP spring
> > readily to mind), and that we might be in similar trouble if *we* ran
the
> > largest software company in the world.
>
> DHCP?  Looking at RFC 1531, 1541, and 2131, I'd say we have Bucknell
> University to thank for DHCP :-)  (Maybe I'm ignorant of some history
> before that)
>
An alternative, and equally likely, explanation is that I'm wrong.

OK then, there's at least ONE thing we have Microsoft to thank for...

wondering-when-the-spanish-inquisition-will-tell-me-ODBC-wasn't-microsoft-ly
y'rs  - sTevE