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Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)


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Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Hmm.  Actually the link you provided does corroborate your claim that it
> was a type error.  I could have sworn that the last time that crash came
> up in such debate, that I looked up and found that it was a units
> conversion error instead.  I don't have the time to repeat such a
> search, so I'll accept this as a valid counter-example.  I still stand
> by my own statement that I've never suffered such software failure, and
> I find it extraordinary that someone did in this case.

You're probably thinking of the "satellite flipped over" error, caused 
by interpreting an altitutde expressed in feet as miles. This may be an 
urban legend, too. I believe I last read about it in a CACM column a few 
months ago, but that may be spurious. A cursory search of the Digital 
Library doesn't turn anything up.

I find it even more extraordinary, though, that you seem to have 
forgotten Murphy's Law. Tsk tsk.

Bob Foster



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