From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: A new name for software failure : the glitch
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:30:14 -0500
Date: 2012-08-10T19:30:14-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k0492q$bev$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: k02vjh$sd6$1@speranza.aioe.org
"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message
news:k02vjh$sd6$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> On 8/4/2012 1:18 PM, francois_fabien@hotmail.com wrote:
>> In finance, software failure can be very expensive very fast.
>> http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-trading-mishap-cost-it-440-million/
>>
>
> fyi;
>
> AdaCore issued statement on this error:
>
> August 07, 2012
>
> http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120807006365/en/AdaCore/Knight-Capital-Group/high-frequency-trading
I thought it was interesting that barely 24 hours after issuing that
statement, AdaCore's e-mail broke, causing all kinds of mess for people
(like me) e-mailing them. Same sort of problem (probably didn't cost $440M,
though). A reminder that Ada doesn't solve everything.
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-11 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-04 18:18 A new name for software failure : the glitch francois_fabien
2012-08-04 19:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-08-04 21:38 ` F. Fabien
2012-08-05 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-05 10:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-05 12:45 ` Britt
2012-08-10 12:42 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-10 13:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-10 14:16 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-10 16:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-11 23:19 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-11 0:30 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2012-08-11 19:22 ` Florian Weimer
2012-08-11 21:25 ` jpwoodruff
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