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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7e8cebf09cf80560 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.78.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:26:14 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4d80b140$0$43832$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d814af0$0$43831$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="13265"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UZEwl/Eq9H6NO1OD4jqUIuB6LvP882kE=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vmLLazPQPjDHBtqnw6pJBWpczik= sha1:DlvCmTKprK2lxTLVrvL1fgyF34Y= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18273 Date: 2011-03-17T00:26:14+00:00 List-Id: "robin" writes: > But only if the error was hardware, which it wasn't. No, and it wasn't bloody software either!!! it was SYSTEM DESIGN!!! and no amount of faffing about at the edges of software will ever fix that. I'm out of this conversation.