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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:15:13 -0500, Leif Roar Moldskred
<leifm@dimnakorr.com> wrote:

>Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>>
>> - Ariane 5 and exception handling, data typing, scope creep, and unit testing
>
>The Ariane 5 incident doesn't tell us anything about exception
>handling, data typing, scope creep or unit testing. Neither of those
>were the culprit. It _does_ tell us a few things about requirements / 
>specification (mis-)management.

     AIUI, it had to do with a type conversion that lost precision.
Either the exception was not thrown or was not handled.  (My sources
did not go into that detail.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko