From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations
Date: 2000/03/18
Date: 2000-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b0p33$afd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38D2ACA9.84FBD9F6@earthlink.net
In article <38D2ACA9.84FBD9F6@earthlink.net>,
Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> That would have saved at least one space probe. (By that here
> I mean the automatic conversion of units.)
If you are talking about the Mars probe, that is unconvincing.
As you know if you have read the details, the issue was simply
that the value was entered in the wrong units. No feature in
a language could have prevented this. If the programmer had
been alert enough to worry about this happening and use some
kind of typed units aware input, then the entire problem would
not have occured, after all a sufficient fix here would simply
have been to make it super-clear what units were expected.
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-10 0:00 Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-03-12 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-03-11 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-13 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-12 0:00 ` claveman
2000-03-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-17 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-03-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-16 0:00 ` mark_biggar
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-03-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-10 0:00 ` mark_biggar
2000-03-14 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-17 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
2000-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
2000-03-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07 0:00 ` dale
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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