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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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On 2006-05-31 12:42:09 -0300, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> said:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 14:58:44 GMT, robin wrote:
> 
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
>> news:1j8hpasemtm7n$.1l1wrnukz7ewf$.dlg@40tude.net...
> 
>>> Ah, but an unforeseen error is a bug. One cannot be bug-tolerant, it is
>>> self-contradictory, after all.
>> 
>> A program can be bug-tolerant.
> 
> Indeed. I know so many programs exceptionally tolerant to their bugs...

They often produce wrong answers which keep their users happy.

When (or if) they are corrected and produce different answers the users
are sometime not so happy. :-(