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From: John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:53:33 +0100
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Dear All

The other day, some geezer who was presenting to me claimed that
someone had carried out an analysis to show that, had the Ariane 5
software been written in C, the first launch would have succeeded.

Are any of you aware of this claim and have information to debunk
this?

Thanks
John