[amsat-bb] As long as we're talking about software failures and spacecraft...

["Margaret Leber (KB3DXS)" <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remeber Ariane 501? The one P3D *might* have been on?

Remeber why it died? No? 

Jim Gosling, Father of Java (and emacs, too) keeps the history at his website,
under the heading "Why being careful about software design is important..."

 http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Ariane5.html

 73 de Maggie

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