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: 103376,6fa24cf3ba43c2c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John English Subject: Re: Code reuse: a cautionary tale Date: 1999/12/13 Message-ID: <3854D78F.EED45A8A@bton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560035826 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <384E4D56.8BD3A9FE@bton.ac.uk> <82orqo$bdj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> To: Ted Dennison X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: University of Brighton Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <384E4D56.8BD3A9FE@bton.ac.uk>, > John English wrote: > > This floated past me the other day, and I thought the folks in this > > group might be as amused by it as I was... > > In fact, as someone who has worked on simulators for about 5 years, I > was so amused when I saw it yesterday, that I went on a hunt to find its > source. Thank goodness for alt.folklore.urban! And thank you for the legwork on this: > For the conclusion (and real story), go here: > http://defence-data.com/archive/page5933.htm I'd assumed it was an urban myth, but it certainly made me laugh anyway! > I can recall a similar situation on a trainer I worked on where we ended > up with 3 piles of rubble flying in formation for about 30 minutes while > we tried to track down the problem. The pilots amused themselves during > that time by pretenting they were Borg cubes. :-) ROFL! ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------