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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/26
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Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:

> A Google search on "therac 25" pops up about 1050 links.

I guess you've omitted the quotes.  If you enter them, the first hit is:

    http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html

(A reprint of a IEEE Computer article, which is the canonical source
for information on the Therac 25 incident, I think.)

Fortunately, you cannot blame any higher-level computer language
for killing people, at least based on this incident.  The offending
software was written in PDP-11 assembly language, according to:

    http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Side_bar_1.html