[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Howard S Shubs wrote:
> 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.

I used to expect my programs to work the first time, and at that time it 
was rather the norm.  I'm nowhere as competent now, but I still have the 
expectation.  It's just that now first time is rare.

Even when there is a problem, it's rarely a huge logic error, usually a 
typing error.