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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107079,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public From: wayne@cs.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/10/06 Message-ID: <1996Oct6.125310.7288@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187943469 distribution: inet x-nntp-posting-host: qew.cs.toronto.edu references: <843845039.4461.0@assen.demon.co.uk> <532k32$r4r@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <32551A66.41C6@gsde.hso.link.com> organization: CS Lab, University of Toronto newsgroups: sci.astro,comp.lang.ada,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32551A66.41C6@gsde.hso.link.com>, Joseph C Williams wrote: >Why didn't they run the code against an Ariane 5 simulator to >reverify the Ariane 4 software what was reused? Money. (The more cynical among us may say this translates to "stupidity".) -- "Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes || Wayne Hayes, wayne@cs.utoronto.ca a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to || Astrophysics & Computer Science appreciate its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie|| http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~wayne