From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd705,7d4631c50b1f5c8d X-Google-Attributes: gidfd705,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-06 07:03:21 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!telepost.no!cx.dnv.no!adh From: adh@cx.dnv.no (Arne Dehli Halvorsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:30:34 Organization: Computas Expert Systems Message-ID: References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3bo402$23a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bvc4k$1lla@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3c0ip0$t7d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uqbar.cx.dnv.no X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8330 comp.lang.c:33540 comp.programming:5654 comp.lang.c++:39811 comp.object:9509 alt.folklore.computers:29814 Date: 1994-12-06T15:30:34+00:00 List-Id: In article mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman) writes: >mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >>In article , >>M. J. Saltzman wrote: >>>Right enough. On the other hand, in the late 80's there was a "Star >>>Wars" test involving a mirror on the Space Shuttle and a laser on the >>>ground. At test time, it turned out that the Shuttle was oriented >>>with the mirror pointing *away* from the earth. I believe that the >>>error was indeed traced to faulty dimensional analysis (a distance in >>>feet passed to a module that expected miles, or something similar). >>Thanks! I knew I had seen it somewhere. :-) >>Mike Feldman >OK, now that I've related the story, I have realized that I don't have >a bona fide citation to support it (although I have a quite vivid >memory of it). So, can anyone supply a reference to supporting >documentation? Karla Jennings: The devouring fungus (Norton ISBN 0-393-30732-8) gives a few more details: Space shuttle Discovery above Hawaii, bouncing a laser down to Mauna Kea, Maui, 10023 feet of height. Reads figure as nautical miles, flips whole shuttle and mirrors laser to the stars... ADH >Thanks in advance. >-- > Matthew Saltzman > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs@clemson.edu