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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: A new name for software failure : the glitch
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message 
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> 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.