[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <SpsZr.1352$GQ4.714 at fx05.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> 
> Ok, let's elaborate a bit. Code written here is always small modules
> which encapsulate the functionality, the internal data and variables that it
> uses, 

   And then you find out the real data doesn't look quite like the
   documents made it sound.

   And if you rigourously apply the approach you list, there are a great
   many copies of PI, or NULL, or whatever basic constants your system
   uses.

   Which is bad for maintenance, the day one of those constants needs to
   change.