[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <fWcZr.7914$3d2.7300 at fx26.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> 
wrote:

> By paying attention, expecting code to work first time, using safe 
> programming techniques and developing incrementally. (Well, you did 
> ask for that :-).

Expecting code to work the first time strikes me as a complete 
contradiction to all my experience.


> Of course you often need to debug code, but the point I was trying to 
> make was that the "debugger" should rarely be the first option. On 
> some sites, the debugger is the first thing to be fired up if a 
> program doesn't work, where 10 minutes analysing program behaviour 
> and sources is often far more productive...

I think I see.  You're talking either about something I've never heard 
of, or you're talking about print statements.  I rarely see programs 
simple enough to do what you seem to be suggesting.

You and Hoff seem to be coming from a realm of programming beyond what 
I've experienced.

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