Re: The ultimate luxury ?

From: Big Bird (condor_at_biosys.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: 3 Aug 2004 15:25:24 -0700

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote in message news:<410f7e2d$0$2833$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>...

> Collating takes two decks of cards which contain data and
> making one deck based on an arbitrary set of rules that
> examines a piece of the data contained in each card.
>
> Merging takes two card decks and makes one card deck based
> on a set of rules that have nothing to do with the data stored
> on the cards; there doesn't have to be anything stored on
> the cards.
>
> Sorting takes one card deck, and arranges that deck using
> the data stored on each card in the same relative postition,
> in an ascending or descending order, alphameric, numeric, or
> alphanumeric.

This means all of this is moot as neither my, nor your, nor anybody
else's newsreader operates on "card decks" these days.

Now you might object that any record-structured set of data is
"functionally equivalent" to a card deck and that in fact records in
files have been called "cards" for about as long as hard disks on
mainframes existed but then I'd note that a "collate" is *functionally
equivalent* to a merge followed by a sort even by your own made-up
definition and that in fact it is being called just that by more
computer programmers AND computer users than ever even knew that the
word "card" can refer to a line of text on your tty.

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