[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <i92ig9-lb81.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>,
 Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:

> That's not my experience.  You must do more exciting stuff than I do :-)

"exciting" only in the Chinese sense.


> Print statements can get you a long way, but going back many years, on 
> starting development of a new system we would first write a set of 
> utilities to inspect and manipulate the application files*.

Yes, me too.  At that last job, I took a task where the existing code 
was in BASIC.  I started out with a blank C file, and rewrote the code 
from scratch.  I had to start with the data utilities first, as the 
module needed something to work with, so I know what you mean.

I maintained it for 3 years.  I found it one of the high points of that 
job, as it needed updates each year for legislative reasons.  (MS-DRG)  
The updates tended to be interesting.

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