On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >SQL in the early 1970s. It just didn't become an ISO standard until 1987.
> >
> >Follow the link I gave you.
>
> I replied to your message AS WRITTEN. If you don't mean to imply
> that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, then you shouldn't make
> a statement like that.
He never implied it. He stated IBM created SQL before MS existed. He
also stated that it has been an ISO standard since 1987. It becoming an
ISO standard in 1987 does not mean that it was created in 1987.
> If you knew that SQL was created in the 60s or 70s, then you
> don't need to learn history, you need to learn English.
To quote the original:
>Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft
>existed!
Pretty clear statement there.
> It has been an ISO standard since 1987.
Also a clear, seperate statement. It may have ben clearer to say 'It
also has been' but what was written in no way equates it being made a
standard with it being created, especially when taken taken with a grain
of historical knowledge wrt Microsoft. In any case the difference isn't
something worth going off the deep end over.
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