efalis

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   by efalis 9y ago

   It was actually an engineering error. The software in question was designed for Ariane 4, and the condition that happened in Ariane 5 could not occur. But a shortcut was taken, and the suitability of the software was not reassessed. Then A
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   by efalis 9y ago

   Yeah, when I was working at Burroughs in 1980, they were doing printer drivers and a distributed OS prototype in their version of Pascal. Problem was, everyone needed to beef up Pascal in their own way to make it industrial level.
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   by efalis 9y ago

   It's written in Ada, if memory serves. ;-)