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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/07
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Date: 1996-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Ken said

"Of course, assuming that the root cause is traced to the software, what of
it? Using Ada certainly doesn't ensure proper operation of a software system!
"

Certainly not, on the other hand, it will be interesting to know more details.
You can certainly ask whether a language could have helped when you now
consider the exact cause of the problem narrowed down to source code.

For instance, I think the Fortran language design bears at least a piece
of responsibility for the Venus probe bug.