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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@mac.com> 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
>
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