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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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > -- <M:D/> :: M. David Peterson :: XML & XML Transformations, C#, .NET, and Functional Languages Specialist
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