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gaius on July 21, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced

I'd be surprised if it wasn't Ada. Tho' Ada code was responsible for Ariane 5 exploding, so it's not a 'silver bullet'.

sp332 on July 21, 2009 [–]

Well, Ada usually runs more safely if you don't explicitly disable error handling, which is what they did to the Ariane 5.

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