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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Another Idea for Ada 20XX
Date: 3 Dec 2001 08:29:04 -0600
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In article <3C0B65CB.8CDD7B31@earthlink.net>, "Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net> writes:

> The problem was that one program wrote a file of floating point numbers
> representing values in British units, which was then read by a program
> that expected floating point numbers representing metric units.  No unit
> information accompanied the values in the file, they were just numbers.

Do space probes include file systems and multiple programs ?

Or is this something in the build environment ?

If the latter, the problem could be solved by an old fashioned EDP
tool called a data dictionary.