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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@MITRE.ORG>
Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada?
Date: 1998/10/05
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At 12:40 PM 10/5/98 -0400, Condic, Marin D. wrote:
> They'd never notice that the bolt should have been three times
>as big for the application it was expected to handle.

   Yep, but as far as I am concerned, this is the equivalent of the
"Galloping Gertie" (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) for software engineering.
Probably the most expensive software engineering failure ever, and, as in
the Tacoma Narrows case, it was a management not a design failure.

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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