[TenTec] Programming bugs

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Sun Jun 15 11:20:01 EDT 2003


At 05:22 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Kevin J. Rowett wrote:
>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.


We used to have a saying at NASA under the unlamented Goldin regime -- 
"Better, faster, cheaper -- choose any two"


73, Pete N4ZR
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