From: jankok@cwi.nl (Jan Kok)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/13
Date: 1996-06-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DsxJJ0.98F@cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31bc75ed.1932371@news.cableol.net
In article <31bc75ed.1932371@news.cableol.net> dewi@mail.cableol.net (Dewi Daniels) writes:
...
>The erroneous claim that the DO-loop bug was the bug that killed
>Mariner I apparently originated with, and certainly was
>propagated by, the book "Software Reliability: Principles and
>Practices" by G(lenford) J. Myers (John Wiley & Sons, 1976). I
>haven't read it myself; I've seen the page numbers 7 and 275
>attributed to the assertion. I expect both are right. This book also
>describes the bug as a "billion-dollar error", which is too large by a
>factor of about 50.
Even in these modern times books can still be retrieved from
old-fashioned libraries. I looked up Myers. The reference and the page
numbers are correct. Myers actually speaks about destination Venus
(not important as the legend has that it did not arrive). I cannot find
a reference that supports Myers' story.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 0:00 ARIANE-5 Failure John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Tronche Ch. le pitre
1996-06-07 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Eugene W.P. Bingue
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Samuel Mize
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-18 0:00 ` 4GL code in a deliverable (was: ARIANE-5 Failure) Arthur Evans Jr
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` 4THGL code Warren Taylor
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Automatic code generation (was ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works)) Steve Vestal
1996-06-07 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Ken Garlington
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Bert Peers
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Dewi Daniels
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jan Kok [this message]
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
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