Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996

[Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

I posted on July 14th, 2009:
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||He is also "an author who writes on the subject of computer programming  ||
||in C and C++," as well as "a member of the Association of C and C++      ||
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||<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevlin_Henney>                             ||
||<http://www.two-sdg.demon.co.uk/curbralan/>                              ||
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||As he is a noted author, I would have liked to hear his thoughts. Too    ||
||often, proponents of less strongly typed languages argue that some       ||
||combination of skill, experience and discipline are as effective as Ada, ||
||and less expensive. This seems contradictory.                            ||
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||If I may extend the automotive analogy: the Ariane 5 project reused the  ||
||ABS from a sedan in a truck without testing it in the truck. Well,       ||
||except for the one time."                                                ||
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|I do not appreciate why you would want to hear from Kevlin Henney as       |
|you know that he believes and writes bull. However, I was surprised        |
|and displeased that he was a speaker at an Ada UK event earlier this       |
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I hereby admit that Kevlin Henney had the good sense to allow a
promotion of Ada in the chapter
HTTP://Programmer.97Things.OReilly.com/wiki/index.php/Prefer_Domain-Specific_Types_to_Primitive_Types
by Einar Landre of the book "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know"
which Kevlin Henney edited and which is due to be printed in February
2010.