[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/23/12 20:46, Howard S Shubs wrote:

>
> That, I can't argue with.  The big area we differ in is that I've yet to
> work in any kind of OOP environment.  Given non-OOP tools, I'm sure you
> can see where I'm coming from.

I don't program in any of the fashionable OO programming languages. C and
some asm is about as far as it goes. Have just bought a couple of books
on ada (s/h, abe books) to have a look at, though it looks like quite a
complex language. Something I know nothing about but you need to  keep
learning and the mind sharp, especially with advancing years.

> Or, on my most recent programming job, we were working in 30+ year old
> VMS code.  Forensic programming can be interesting.  It can be fun.  But
> it requires a lot of debugging time unless you have an amazing amount of
> time to learn the code, and no one does.

The worst case I ever had to deal with was legacy code where some of the
source files were 20-40k bytes of text and only with few meaningless 
comments.
I suggested that the lot needed to be written, as it would save them a 
fortune
in long term maintenance costs, but they didn't listen and I left after 
a couple
of weeks. One of the advantages of working freelance, but the downside 
is that
you are broke some of the time :-)...

Regards,

Chris