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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Path: alexandria.organon.com!alexandria!jsa
- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: kst@thomsoft.com's message of Sat, 17 Feb 1996 02:47:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <JSA.96Feb19193423@organon.com>
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- <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <DMwFqr.EGD@thomsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:34:23 GMT
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- In article <DMwFqr.EGD@thomsoft.com> kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) writes:
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- > The story that a Venus probe was destroyed by a Fortran error has been
- > widely propagated, but it's inaccurate. The probe in question was
- > Mariner 1, which was destroyed 4 minutes after launch on July 22, 1962.
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- So, does this mean that there are _no_ confirmed cases of probes lost due
- software? If so, I'm impressed as software has just plain _got_ to be
- the weakest link in the chain. 1/2 :-)
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- [neat info snipped...]
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- /Jon
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