From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co
Date: 2000/02/01
Date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Feb1.153921.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7bt606bro.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com
In article <t7bt606bro.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>, Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:
> But it's exactly that mechanism that led to the Ariane 5 crash. I have
> argued before that *not* catching such errors at runtime might be a
> better approach, because it's possible that such an error would cause
> only slight local effects which would quickly damp out, whereas invoking
> error handling leads to massive global effects.
And some small fraction of automobile collision victims who are not wearing
safety belts are "thrown clear". Exceptional cases do get more press.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-30 0:00 JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Tracy Goembel
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
[not found] ` <m3emaug917.fsf@blight.transcend.org>
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
[not found] ` <879hjf$ggv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Geography (was: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co) Karel Thoenissen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-01 0:00 ` JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Larry Kilgallen
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