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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3EF5F3F3.6000806@attbi.com>...
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> > Ada made the Ariane 5 crash!
> 
> No, stupid management decisions made Ariane 5 crash.  This is one of 
> those stories where the truth really needs to catch up to the rumor. 

Unfortunately the rumor (unlike the truth) is an excellent club for
the hostile to use against Ada.  Of course they never bother to
explain how simply using another language would have prevented the
microprocessor Operand Error trap from happening on the fatal
FP-to-int conversion.