[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/21/12 14:57, Paul Sture wrote:

>
> When I was working with COBOL or FORTRAN on VMS, I only resorted to the
> debugger very rarely - I could usually debug stuff by looking at the
> source code.  In fact the last times I recall using the VMS debugger with
> either of those languages were when I suspected a compiler bug or a third
> party library routine.

Many of us were brought up in the days when there were no debuggers, which
encouraged safe coding and development processes. It could be really hard
work tracking down some problems. Such ideas can stick for a lifetime :-).

>
> RMS was one of VMS's great productivity strengths in early days.  My
> friends working with lesser operating systems were writing their own
> indexing systems for each and every app they wrote.
>

Perhaps they had never heard of portable coding and the use of libraries ?.

I think you have to ask why RMS was built into the filesystem at the 
time, to
understand why it may not be so relevant now...

Regards,

Chris