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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Well, still better it simply falls down doing nothing more harmful =
than=20
>> to bury some sheep under it, than to detonate over the wrong =
(friendly)=20
>> target.
>
>I meant that there's no time or ability to restart, so it may as well
>keep on going instead of shut down.

Depending on what the error actually does, both things can be
dangerous.

>Self-destruct is usually handled
>by the ground controllers anyway.

Hopefully it is running on a secondary system, otherwise the
off-by-one error in the guidance control system might disable this
feature suddenly. :->


Vinzent.