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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:32:25 +0100 Message-ID: <41A72259.3020102@mailinator.com> References: <2004112218292016807%david@bottoncom> <20619edc.0411251028.3e249bf3@posting.google.com> <41A7014E.8090803@mailinator.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de R+4bGiFTJ7KxGJPKh3Bv1AStx0bvG9hL+5aUBY7OEWlkxfL+I= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6506 Date: 2004-11-26T13:32:25+01:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > >> Anyway, isn't the C argument ridiculous? > > > No, as your own words show. I disagree (obviously). My words show that I put safety above "maybe" & "have a chance" when you *know* that something is going wrong in your rocket. But that's just my POV, of course. >> I mean, is preferible to have a huge explosive thing flying on >> corrupted data? So it can by chance go where it should... or not? >> >> I know[*] in this particular case these component had no further >> purpose in the flight so it would have get away safely... but that's >> not relevant IMO. >> >> [*] (IIRC it was only used during some limited time after lift-off). > > Of course it is relevant. Maybe it failed just before being shut up and > the ship would have a chance to stabilize.