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- From: WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US (Robert S. White)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 06:12:06 GMT
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- References: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- In article <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com>, GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com
- says...
- >For years, I have heard the story about how a "bug" in the F-16 flight
- control
- >computer caused it to roll to an inverted position when crossing the
- equator. I
- >have never found anything authoritative that exactly described the
- circumstances
- >(if anyone has this information, let me know)
-
- I've heard this story many, many times. And it has always be attributed to a
- sign error ( wrong handleing of - ) rather than any language error. Sign
- errors have been the worst bug-a-boo in the building that I have worked in
- for the last ten years. And no computer language has yet solved this
- problem!
- --
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Robert S. White -- an embedded systems software engineer
- WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US -- It's long, but I pay for it!
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