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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SYSADMIN autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,87f6968ed41c9df1 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++ robin) Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Date: 1996/08/30 Message-ID: <505pto$bmr@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 177339549 expires: 1 November 1996 00:00:00 GMT references: <4vjv1e$8c6@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4vrmtp$s80@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3222E875.2E54@lmtas.lmco.com> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 nntp-posting-user: rav Date: 1996-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Garlington writes: >++ robin wrote: >> >> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >> >> >rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++ robin) writes: >> >> >>---I was pointing out the problems people >> >>have in writing codes in that language. Do you have >> >>a problem with that? >> >> >But people do NOT have a problem with using the square root in Ada. >> >> ---But they do, and did -- even after exploring the >> manual -- or they wouldn't have to ask >Having worked at a user help desk in college, I received many questions >about how to do things in PL/I, even after students had attempted to >find the answer in the IBM PL/I manual. ---We're not dealing with a student here, but an adult....from NASA. Please credit him with a bit of nous in finding out the information. If he could not find out how to do it, then it's a problem, isn't it.