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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conflicts
Date: 1999/10/21
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<Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991021164856.126066B-100000@pluto.mscc.h
uji.ac.il>,
  Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> It seems we are sometimes too eager to find arguments where
none really
> exists (like variable names vs. comments, which I really
assume we all
> agree are both useful.


Of course we all agree that both are useful, but that is not
what the discussion is about, and there is indeed some
disagreement here, the disussion is real, reread carefully :-)

The issue is whether names can stand in for comments....


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