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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure - Summary Report
Date: 1996/07/25
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Byron B. Kauffman wrote:
> 
> the Ada mandate? Of course, the C crowd will want to blame this
> scenario on Ada, but it appears to me that the same results would have
> occurred no matter what language the original software was written in.

Not true. In C, the operation that performed the type conversion (cast),
would have corrupted nearby memory locations and continued running with
faulty data (or possibly instructions). The resulting error would have
occured at a seemingly random place with seemingly random frequency, and
the commision studying the failure would never have been able to isolate 
it.

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