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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada?
Date: 1998/09/24
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In article <6udre0$ha1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:

 >  or Fortran:

 >	Do 10 i = 1.6

 > the latter being the (in)famous bug at the heart of the urban
 > legend that the Venus probe died because of this bug :-)

   For the record, the launch did fail do to a single character error.
But the error was in transcribing the control equations for the
booster, not in the actual code derived from them.  The error didn't
manifest itself on earlier launches, because the instability was
second-order.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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