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• To: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>
• Subject: Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)
• From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:34:09 -0700
• Cc: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>, xml-dev@l...
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• Reply-to: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>

Wow!  I hate to admit that I am the idiot that made the original
statement that brought on a lot of this information gathering and
showcased in this very long thread but at least I am now an idiot
who's a little smarter because of it... :D

Live and learn we do...

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:27:38 -0800, Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...> wrote:
>  I don't
> >think I can recall having *ever* had a program fail because someone
> >passed a float to a routine that expected an int.
> 
> Really !?
> 
> For an impressive example, just take a look at this:
> 
> http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html
> 
> $7 billion dollars lost in an explosion after only a couple of seconds
> in flight. More then 10 years of work for tens of thousands of people.
> Fortunately no human loses.
> 
> My lab at that time (INRIA) was tasked to read the millions of lines of code.
> There were many problems found, but the cause of the explosion
> was an unfortunate type conversion implicit in a function call if I recall
> correctly.
> 
> That was enough to deviate the rocket.
> 
> Best regards,
> Dana
> 
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:: M. David Peterson ::
XML & XML Transformations, C#, .NET, and Functional Languages Specialist

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