From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conflicts
Date: 1999/10/12
Date: 1999-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Oct12.193845.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7tvpbe$45t@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com
In article <7tvpbe$45t@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> I am not sure why this topic is in the Ada Usenet group. Was the
> Mars Climate Orbiter programmed in Ada?
The discussion started with people suggesting the use of the Ada
typing system to avoid mismatches of units. Consensus is that
if it was done in Ada it was not done right, which is also true
if it was done in Algol or any other language.
Larry Kilgallen
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1999-10-12 0:00 ` Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conflicts Richard D Riehle
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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1999-10-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conf Wilhelm Spickermann
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conflicts Wes Groleau
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