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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,3488d9e5d292649f X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6a2e4a4c0d7d8a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-20 13:45:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:39:41 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <6F01A9BDC686A359.6430C14E3029E8CA.6C7A1A97820C8419@lp.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-46-80.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1045777182 22059 128.83.112.208 (20 Feb 2003 21:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:39:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.pl1:4373 comp.lang.ada:34306 Date: 2003-02-20T15:39:41-06:00 List-Id: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:27:43 -0600, John R. Strohm wrote: > This is from memory, twelve years ago. > > Operation Desert Storm, near the end of the party, when Saddam Hussein > was lobbing Scuds and the U.S. was going crazy trying to find all of his > Scud launchers. Incoming Scud detected, Patriot failed to engage, > missile hit, destroying (as I recall) a warehouse tent or a barracks > tent, killing some twenty troops. Investigation showed that a timer had > overflowed. The Patriot system designers assumed that the system would > never be operated for more than a few hours at a time, and the timer > couldn't overflow in that time. This particular one had been up for > several days. I thought I remembered that the Patriot *did* intercept the Scud, and knocked it out of the sky but didn't destroy the warhead. Then the warhead fell at a bad-luck spot, killing people who wouldn't have died if it hadn't been intercepted at all. (By a strange coincidence, my memory of the matter is also 12 years old!) -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas