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: 101deb,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107079,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public From: rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/09/25 Message-ID: <52bm1c$gvn@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185283506 distribution: inet references: <52a572$9kk@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> followup-to: sci.astro,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: @@ robin (rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote: : The cause? An integer out of range -- the same problem : as with Ariane 5, where an integer became out of range. ... : There's a case for a review of the programming language used. Why do you persist? Ada _has_ range checks built into the language. They were explicitly disabled in this case. What are you failing to grasp? -- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com http://www.rational.com http://www.rational.com/pst/products/testmate.html