From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Patriot problem, more info available?
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:09:27 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.160927.1667@weyrich.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1991Jun7.080445.12661@netcom.COM
In article <1991Jun7.080445.12661@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>>I am particularly interested in the connection
>>between four days of operation and a software failure.
>>Based on no more than the newspaper article I wonder
>>if a dynamic memory got fragmented and slow with time.
>
>That's certainly how it reads. I've been told by people
>involved with the project that the system is programmed in a
>mixture of assembly, FORTRAN, and JOVIAL--but from the way it
>failed it sounds more like LISP!
Hmmm ... reminds me of an article that I saw describing a program which
converts LISP into FORTRAN. It could be a LISP interpreter implemented
in FORTRAN :-).
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1991-06-07 0:30 Patriot problem, more info available? SAHARBAUGH
1991-06-07 8:04 ` Jim Showalter
1991-06-07 16:09 ` Orville R. Weyrich [this message]
1991-06-10 1:46 ` Kenneth Ng
1991-06-07 23:10 ` Bill Kinnersley
1991-06-08 4:14 ` Jim Showalter
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1991-07-01 18:57 Esther Lumsdon
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