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From: "John Roth" <johnroth@ameritech.net>
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Subject: Re: Ariane Failure
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"Keith Ray" <k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y@1m2a3c4.5c6o7m> wrote in message
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> 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>