[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:49 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >> What if your test cases have bugs?
> >
> > Hmm, I'd think the test cases would still fail.
> 
> Not neccesaily. If the code to test produce the output the test case 
> looks for, test pass. Both test and code buggy. Wohoo...

This shouldn't happen if you write enough test cases such that one or
more tests will fail despite that. 

I'm thinking of Homer Simpson as a C++ programmer, this is exactly what
would happen to him. :-)

> I have not ever seen a program that works right the first time. And I 
> seriously doubt anyone here have seen that very often, even if you
> only do very simple programs... 

Neither have I. 
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