[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:49:54 -0600, Howard S Shubs wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that's it.
 
> 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.

Though I can't say I particularly enjoyed payroll during to time it took 
to get it working properly, in subsequent years the annual government 
fiddling with social security contributions and taxes guaranteed me a bit 
of freelance work every spring, and it was a pleasant change of scenery.

-- 
Paul Sture