From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff121,3ae3fa74ecb04ab8 X-Google-Attributes: gidff121,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c617ae447ca32f2f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 19:20:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14eed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Ray Newsgroups: comp.software.extreme-programming,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane Failure References: <3CA4B8E5.72909C9B@adaworks.com> <3CA50E9A.CBF24F1B@lanl.gov> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.236.99.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1017458424 12.236.99.180 (Sat, 30 Mar 2002 03:20:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 03:20:24 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 03:20:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software.extreme-programming:12781 comp.lang.ada:21878 Date: 2002-03-30T03:20:24+00:00 List-Id: Weinberg's "The Psychology of Computer Programming", first published in 1971, mentions the explosion of an 18 million dollar rocket because "one instruction on the tape was left out". I wonder how long that programming error was debated. -- C. Keith Ray