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