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From: jankok@cwi.nl (Jan Kok)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/13
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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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