On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, 8:03pm -0000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Richard Maine wrote:
> > > ADA still being seriously used?
> > Yes. Very much so. Mostly in a pretty limited application domain...
> Indeed. You may recall the failure of ESA's first Ariane-5 rocket: the
> failure to handle an overflow exception properly in ADA was one of the
> chain of mistakes which caused the rocket to blow up.
Of course, that never would have happened had they written it
in Fortran. :-)
-P.
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