Comments on: Programming Joke http://www.ransomedhome.com/blog/2007/05/25/programming-joke about computers, Operating Systems (OS), simple tutorials, philosophy, and my life. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Jess http://www.ransomedhome.com/blog/2007/05/25/programming-joke/comment-page-1#comment-29573 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:47:20 +0000 http://www.ransomedhome.com/blog/2007/05/25/programming-joke/#comment-29573 This so reminds me of a discussion with some colleagues a couple of years ago. I had just gone to a conference for Advanced SQL programming of some sort….and I found this shirt that just made me laugh…..just a plain white shirt with black lettering that said

Select *
From Users
Where Clue >0

0 rows returned.

Clearly not advance, but I digress. I found this fabulous as most if not all of my users happened to be clueless.

So, I felt the need to pass on the joke to my equally geeky co-workers. This resulted in a string of emails debating whether it required a ‘;’ or not to actually run, and then whether it was ANSI-compliant or Oracle sql…as this has bearing on the need for said ‘;’. So, needless to say, I was the least of the geeks in that one…..amazing really as the intitial intent of the joke was lost. Leave to the IT folks.

Just had to share.

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