> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amelia A Lewis [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:17 PM
> To: Daniela Florescu
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The Airplane Example (was Re:
> [xml-dev] 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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