Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:08:23 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <7sudncbWtOTsrQjTnZ2dnUVZ876dnZ2d@telenor.com> <9LqdnfdVAsdGkQvTnZ2dnUVZ876dnZ2d@telenor.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.38-11-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:08:23 -0500 Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-TQ1aVNS0wcPnmzDovLg7BsoiFSnkBsdtM5kWY9GeSMBv/FBdkdP8VqarRYe7NuYenuR0NMtI942BZtZ!nNAPaGdbi4VA3aydLTtQs+JiE8qJ6AddKZQCtd9hN8/ybDtmBpmXHR/46BvGGMI2QNcsXzCsEHs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2046 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8751 Gene Wirchenko wrote: > > Sure there was. It had an assumption about how much oomph the > rocket had. The Ariane 5 had way more than the 4 did. With the 4, > the overflow was not possible. With the 5, it was. Yes, but as the code wasn't written to be used on the Ariane 5, that was a valid assumption and not an error. The code was correct and fit for its intended use. That someone later took this code and tried to use it for something it was never meant to be used for is not an error in the code: A wrench makes a poor hammer, but that doesn't mean the wrench is constructed badly. -- Leif Roar Moldskred