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I agree, and I don't mean to argue against moving to the metric system. I only intended to dispel the notion that software safeguards that would have prevented

I agree, and I don't mean to argue against moving to the metric system. I only intended to dispel the notion that software safeguards that would have prevented these incidents were in place and failed. Educating developers about this potential issue and ensuring safeguards are in place to prevent disaster seems like a more readily achievable goal than inducing a national migration to the metric system.

Ntrails 11y ago
Sod national, I'm talking about corporate. If my company mandates that all code must be written in Lisp, then that's what I'll do. If they mandate all monetary values must be stored as USD then that's what I'll do. And if they require that all code must use the metric system - with display options to convert to imperial? Thats. What. I'll. Do. I don't care what the coding guidelines are - I only care that they exist. [within reason]