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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co
Date: 2000/02/01
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In article <s9e96d4uer236@corp.supernews.com>, "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com> writes:

> No.  They treated all exceptions as indication of hardware failures
> because they didn't believe
> they could happen due to software.

And there was a hardware failure -- all of a sudden the rocket reported
behavior well outside the capability of an Ariane 4.  Perhaps the most
likely cause was a warp in the space-time continuum :-) so aborting the
journey of this Ariane 4 is certainly appropriate.

Perhaps Microsoft could show them how to hand out stickers "This software
validated for use on Ariane 5."