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From: "John Roth" <johnroth@ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Ariane Failure
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 07:12:32 -0500
Date: 2002-03-30T07:12:32-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabajao50n0u1c@news.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y-630660.19202829032002@netnews.attbi.com


"Keith Ray" <k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y@1m2a3c4.5c6o7m> wrote in message
news:k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y-630660.19202829032002@netnews.attbi.com...
> Weinberg's "The Psychology of Computer Programming", first published
in
> 1971, mentions the explosion of an 18 million dollar rocket because
"one
> instruction on the tape was left out".
>
> I wonder how long that programming error was debated.

Until everyone got tired of the snake oil salesmen - or the next
major disaster took people's fickle attention away.

John Roth

> --
> C. Keith Ray
>
> <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html>





  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-30 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ee2a195b.0203260725.a02dbfe@posting.google.com>
2002-03-29 18:56 ` Ariane Failure Richard Riehle
2002-03-29 20:56   ` Michael Feathers
2002-03-30  1:02     ` Bill
2002-03-30  3:20       ` Keith Ray
2002-03-30 12:12         ` John Roth [this message]
2002-03-30 13:36       ` Michael Feathers
2002-04-01 15:22         ` Marin David Condic
     [not found]         ` <a8oo51$tsk$2@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>
2002-04-08 13:59           ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 12:49             ` John Roth
2002-04-09 14:58               ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-09 15:04             ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-09 23:00               ` John Roth
2002-04-10 12:52                 ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-10 12:59                   ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11  0:48                     ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-11 13:17                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11 13:47                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-11 14:15                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11 12:12                   ` fdebruin
2002-04-11 14:33                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-11 18:16                       ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-11 18:30                         ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 19:07             ` Bill
2002-04-09 19:44               ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-01 15:08   ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 18:32     ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-02 18:42       ` Marin David Condic
1996-06-28  0:00 Robert B. Love 
1996-07-01  0:00 ` Ken Garlington

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