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On 11/10/2011 11:15 PM, Leif Roar Moldskred 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.

I thought it told us the importance of not dumping your exceptions to 
stdout when stdout is fed into the rocket gimbal controller?