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John R. Strohm wrote:
> The Patriot system designers assumed that the system  would never
 > be operated for more than a few hours at a time, and the timer
 > couldn't overflow in that time.

And so is this an illustration of how Ada would have helped,
or an illustration of how Ada would not have helped? Had Ada
code raised a numeric error at the overflow, would that have
caused the missile to engage its target properly?