From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/04/06 Message-ID: <01bc42ae$33754f40$90f482c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 231109637 References: <5i36c0$19e@umbra.jobstream.co.uk> Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote in article ... [...] > Actually talking about the weigh of the software reminds me of the old > story (fact? urban legend? who knows, perhaps the appropriate urban legend > www site knows). The story goes that on an early NASA mission, the engineer > in terms of the weight control demanded to know the weight of the software. > He would not take for an answer that it had no weight and demanded to see > it. Finally he was shown a deck of punched cards. "Ah ha!" he said, "see, > I knew it had to weigh something". The software engineer replied: "You > don't understand, the software is the *holes* punched into these cards :-) [...] Presumably the software actually weighed _less_ than nothing, then! Nick :-}