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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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On 2006-05-24 15:43:13 -0300, "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net> said:

> On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:34:58 -0400, Gordon Sande  
> <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
>> The urban legends have the Fortran error of a DO loop that changed into
>> an assignment because of a typo changing a comma into a period and
>> a satellite was lost. For Ada it is a tossed interrupt that caused a
>> launch failure. Bad practice of one will always be inferior to good
>> practice of the other.
> 
> In the Ariane 5 case, it wasn't the language, but mismanagement in  
> applying software appropriate to a launcher with different flight  
> parameters to a new one without review.
> 
> - Ed

Is that English vrs French or Ada vrs Fortran? Of course it does not
matter as mismanagement transends both natural and formal languages
and is possible for both.