From: jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:30 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-07-10T14:51:30-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: ocle559uc4fu5roesre66ir69bqe9p4f03@4ax.com
On Jul 10, 8:53 am, John McCabe <j...@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> The other day, some geezer who was presenting to me claimed that
> someone had carried out an analysis to show that, had the Ariane 5
> software been written in C, the first launch would have succeeded.
>
> Are any of you aware of this claim and have information to debunk
> this?
>
> Thanks
> John
It might have worked, given the fact that C does not generate
exceptions upon overflow. On the other hand, it might have
produced some exceptionally nasty garbage data for the same reason.
Jim Rogers
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 14:53 Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 John McCabe
2009-07-10 15:04 ` Martin
2009-07-10 15:09 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 16:27 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-10 18:17 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-12 14:08 ` Marco
2009-07-12 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-07-13 10:03 ` John McCabe
2009-07-14 0:53 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 13:49 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 15:16 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 17:29 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 20:18 ` Ada in teaching (was: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996) Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-14 21:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-07-14 22:36 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 23:42 ` Ada in teaching Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-15 1:03 ` (see below)
2009-07-15 15:08 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-15 15:36 ` John McCabe
2009-07-15 18:28 ` John B. Matthews
2010-01-08 13:19 ` Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2010-01-08 17:34 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-10 16:01 ` Bjarne Bäckström
2009-07-14 20:50 ` sjw
2009-07-10 15:26 ` Albrecht Käfer
2009-07-10 15:38 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-07-10 15:45 ` jonathan
2009-07-10 18:29 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 18:44 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 20:10 ` jonathan
2009-07-11 16:54 ` John McCabe
2009-07-14 14:33 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 14:39 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 19:46 ` Niklas Holsti
2009-07-11 14:21 ` Albrecht Käfer
2009-07-11 16:55 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 21:51 ` jimmaureenrogers [this message]
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