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From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Patriot problem, more info available?
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.160927.1667@weyrich.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:09:27 GMT
References: <9106070033.AA16103@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <1991Jun7.080445.12661@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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In article <1991Jun7.080445.12661@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>>I am particularly interested in the connection
>>between four days of operation and a software failure.
>>Based on no more than the newspaper article I wonder
>>if a dynamic memory got fragmented and slow with time.
>
>That's certainly how it reads. I've been told by people
>involved with the project that the system is programmed in a
>mixture of assembly, FORTRAN, and JOVIAL--but from the way it
>failed it sounds more like LISP!

Hmmm ... reminds me of an article that I saw describing a program which
converts LISP into FORTRAN.  It could be a LISP interpreter implemented
in FORTRAN :-).

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