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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Mariner 1 / FORTRAN bug
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:28:01 +0200
Date: 2019-08-09T08:28:01+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qij3pe$3m5$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97509e4d-05b9-4b6a-ab12-613abbe562b0@googlegroups.com>

Le 09/08/2019 à 03:57, robin.vowels@gmail.com a écrit :
>> While it probably didn't cause the failure of a space probe, people 
>> did get bitten by this language design flaw, which is an example of a 
>> single-character error (added, omitted, or changed) that results in valid
>> code.
> Single-character errors are still possible, whatever the language.
> 
Of course, you can type "-" instead of "+" in any language.

But outside of mathematical formulas, can you give an example of
single-character error in Ada?

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-09  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-12-04 20:18 C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing? happy.colorado.edu!srheintze
2019-08-08 15:23 ` robin.vowels
2019-08-12 15:47   ` Shark8
2019-08-08 15:40 ` Marina 1 / FORTRAN bug robin.vowels
2019-08-08 17:26   ` Mariner " Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-08-09  1:57     ` robin.vowels
2019-08-09  6:28       ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2019-08-09  6:47         ` Niklas Holsti
2019-08-09 11:40           ` J-P. Rosen
2019-08-09 15:57           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-08-09  8:38         ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-08-09 14:27           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2019-08-09 21:05             ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-08-09 21:24               ` Lucretia
2019-08-09 22:03                 ` Paul Rubin
2019-08-08 17:51   ` Keith Thompson
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