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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:44:51 -0500
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Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> Ada would have possibly helped by raising an obvious
 > exception during tests, so that the software would
 > have being fixed before flying.

The claim was that the bug happened because the system
had been left running for more time than its designers
had anticipated. How then could an exception have been
raised during testing?