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From: ddavenpo@redwood.hac.com (Darren C Davenport)
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
 an exception?)
Date: 1996/08/05
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Date: 1996-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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++           robin (rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
: 2. failure to OBJECT to the stupid design of the error
:    handler, which was to shut down the system.  An experienced
:    real-time programmer would have done this.  And certainly,
:    a PL/I programmer would have NOT written an error-handler to shut
:    down the system in the event of a fixed-point overflow.

I don't think any language endows a programmer with more intelligence.

Darren