Hello folks,

For those who design, and write software, I just thought of sharing this
with you.  A few years ago, a good friend of mine had me read this...

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http://www.holub.com/goodies/ariane5.html

Here's the full Ariane 5 Failure Report from the European equivalent of
the NTSB. It describes why the rocket blew up back in the Summer of 1996.
To make a long story short: someone forgot to catch an exception thrown
in response to a float-to-int-conversion overflow. This report should be
required reading for all programmers. It makes abundantly clear why you
should care about software design. 

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Jeff Gutierrez
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