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From: "J.F. Cornwall" <JCornwall@cox.net>
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Ed Falis wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:34:58 -0400, Gordon Sande 
> <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
>> The urban legends have the Fortran error of a DO loop that changed into
>> an assignment because of a typo changing a comma into a period and
>> a satellite was lost. For Ada it is a tossed interrupt that caused a
>> launch failure. Bad practice of one will always be inferior to good
>> practice of the other.
> 
> In the Ariane 5 case, it wasn't the language, but mismanagement in 
> applying software appropriate to a launcher with different flight 
> parameters to a new one without review.
> 
> - Ed

Hence the urban legend part of the reference...

Jim