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From: WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US (Robert S. White)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/21
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In article <312992F6.588D@lfwc.lockheed.com>, GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com 
says...
>For years, I have heard the story about how a "bug" in the F-16 flight 
control
>computer caused it to roll to an inverted position when crossing the 
equator. I
>have never found anything authoritative that exactly described the 
circumstances
>(if anyone has this information, let me know)

I've heard this story many, many times.  And it has always be attributed to a 
sign error ( wrong handleing of - ) rather than any language error.  Sign 
errors have been the worst bug-a-boo in the building that I have worked in 
for the last ten years.  And no computer language has yet solved this 
problem!
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Robert S. White                    -- an embedded systems software engineer
WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US -- It's long, but I pay for it!
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