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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <17e001ce-28f1-43ff-a78f-fc3f84642ada@k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.70.240.233 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247262691 17127 127.0.0.1 (10 Jul 2009 21:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.70.240.233; posting-account=fZH-XgkAAADP-Rf8L8ppyFIdKUfh90k4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6963 Date: 2009-07-10T14:51:30-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 10, 8:53=A0am, John McCabe 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