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[TenTec] Programming bugs

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Subject: [TenTec] Programming bugs
From: krowett@rowett.org (Kevin J. Rowett)
Date: Sat Jun 14 22:39:15 2003
>You want perfect software - sure that's possible - NASA manage it, but at a
>price far in excess of what people are willing to pay for a word processor
>or other non-critical software.

Not quite.  While perhaps not a programming bug, certainly a bug - the MARS
lander that crashed - one group worked in SI, the other in english units,
without the benefit of converting the values between the two different
units.

N6RCE

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