On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:42:44 -0500, David Robinow wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> In article <[email protected]>, >> David Robinow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tim Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > More than "not required", it was "not relevant". This led to one of >>> > the most infamous programming blunders in the early days of the >>> > space program, when one programmer accidentially typed a period >>> > instead of a comma resulting in the loss of a satellite: >>> Interesting story. Did you make it up? >> >> It's a fairly well known story. >> >> http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.64.html#subj4.2 > Sure. But the question is, "Who made it up?" > http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fortran > > Computer folklore has incorrectly attributed the loss of the Mariner 1 > space probe to a syntax error in a Fortran program. For example, "Recall > the first American space probe to Venus, reportedly lost because Fortran > cannot recognize a missing comma in a DO statement…"[
What makes you believe it is incorrect? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
