From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception? Date: 1996/07/29 Message-ID: <31FCAAEE.6D09@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170881554 references: <285641259wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: JP Thornley wrote: > > In article: simonb@pact.srf.ac.uk (Simon > Bluck) writes: > > > > The Ariane 501 flight failure was due to the raising of an unexpected > > Ada exception, which was handled by switching off the computer. The > > report on this: > > > > http://www.esrin.esa.it/htdocs/tidc/Press/Press96/ariane5rep.html > > > > is clear and hard-hitting: it will result in much improved software. > > But does it get right to the bottom of the issues, > > Don't know about that until I get to read the full report (the above > reference is to a press release about the report). There is a pointer to the full report at the bottom of the press release. -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"