[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case
ChrisQ
meru at devnull.com
Tue Aug 21 11:13:24 EDT 2012
On 08/21/12 15:10, ChrisQ wrote:
> 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.
>
and just to add: Yes, code inspection really is the best debugger. If it's
not obvious from that how the code is working, then it's probably badly
designed anyway...
Regards,
Chris
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