On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:00:49PM +0100, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > Larry Wall wrote:
> >but you do not want your rocket control software > >throwing unexpected exceptions just because one of your engine > >temperature sensors went haywire. That's a good way to lose a rocket. > > But then again you might want to do something about temperatures out > of deadbands. Otherwise you could just optimize the temperature sensor > away in the first place. IIRC that is the case for rockets used on > New Year's eve ;) Here the question to the operator is how to handle > a rocket that didn't lift off. Walking there and inspecting it with > bare hands and *eyes* might be a bad idea! I think that Larry is referring to slightly larger and more expensive rockets than regular fireworks: http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/ariane.htm (ie real software, not a metaphor) Nicholas Clark
