• To: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...>,"Daniela Florescu" <dflorescu@m...>
• Subject: RE: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:29:27 -0800
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: The Airplane Example (was Re: StreamingXML)

> -----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)
>
> Actually, according to the full report:
> 
> http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/Ariane5accidentreport.html
> 
>
> In other words, because of strong typing and exception 
> handling in Ada, Ariane 5 crashed. 

That's not the conclusion I came to from that report. Can you explain
how weak typing [or dynamic typing which was the original point of the
thread] would have made this problem any better? 

I think the report vindicates Dana's position. 

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