[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <OlyZr.3848$8c6.2869 at fx28.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> 
wrote:

> 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.

So I'm learning.  I've always been dismissive of certifications.  The 
thing is, w/o work experience in new areas, I have no way to move ahead.  
So I'm going to start working on a RedHat cert next week.  It has its 
uses, I hope.

I like C and Fortran and VMS and DCL and such, but that's not 
forward-looking.


> 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 :-)...

And no bennies, I suppose.

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