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Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)

• To: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)
• From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:05:54 -0700
• Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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• Reply-to: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>

Its mine!  Fits perfect into the Masochistic theme that has so well
penetrated the XSLT community AND it pokes fun at another language
something I have missed since I gave up flaming XQuery a week or two
ago... Now I have a new little toy to play with for a day or two ;)
I'm gonna hug it and squeeze and stop this of mice and men comparison
before its too late...

:D


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:53:31 -0500, Michael Champion
<michaelc.champion@g...> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:43:06 -0500, Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:29:27 -0800
> > "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Amelia A Lewis [mailto:amyzing@t...]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:17 PM
> > > > To: Daniela Florescu
> > > > Cc: xml-dev@l...
> > > > Subject: Re:  The Airplane Example (was Re:
> > > >  StreamingXML)
> > > >
> 
> > > >
> > > > http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/Ariane5accidentreport.html
> 
> The conclusion "Although the failure was due to a systematic software
> design error, mechanisms can be introduced to mitigate this type of
> problem. For example the computers within the SRIs could have
> continued to provide their best estimates of the required attitude
> information. There is reason for concern that a software exception
> should be allowed, or even required, to cause a processor to halt
> while handling mission-critical equipment." is fodder for the
> draconian error handling permathread too .
> 
> 
> >  Among the bondage and discipline languages, Ada stands
> > out as a laughing sadist.
> 
> :-)  That should be a quote for the day somewhere !
> 
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:: M. David Peterson ::
XML & XML Transformations, C#, .NET, and Functional Languages Specialist

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