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Operating Systems Linux GNU's Not Unix! - The Free Software Foundation Post 302073559 by System Shock on Monday 15th of May 2006 03:51:08 PM
Old 05-15-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Synbios
I don't understand where the G is derived from..
The G doesn't stand for anything.
The G is there simply to make the acronym an actual word. Gnu is an actual word (name of a type of antelope). Any other letter, and the acronym wouldn't work as a word.

anu
bnu
cnu
dnu
enu
fnu

... you get the idea.

Last edited by System Shock; 05-15-2006 at 04:56 PM..
 

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SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::DB2 - Reserved SQL words by DB2 SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::DB2->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved DB2 word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by DB2. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either DB2 5, 6, 7 or 8. is_reserved_by_db2v5( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 5. is_reserved_by_db2v6( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 6. is_reserved_by_db2v7( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 7. is_reserved_by_db2v8( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 8. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with DB2 versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_db2v5 is_reserved_by_db2v6 is_reserved_by_db2v7 is_reserved_by_db2v8 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/> AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)
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