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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language
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* Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>         From http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
>
> Interesting. So there was no overflow involved at all,
> and no language error, just a bad algorithm. So would
> Ada have helped any here?

Might possible.
 type Time is delta 0.1;
 for Time'Small use 0.0;