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From: schwrtze@csd2.UUCP (Eric Schwartz group)
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Subject: Re: What I miss in micro-processors (fairly long)
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 01:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 01:23:00 1985
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 Re: range checks. 

	"...leaving range checks out is rather like practising sailing on
shore with life belts and then leaving them on shore come the moment.."

	Knuth???

was it not the mariner probe that was lost due to a FORTRAN subscript error?

I agree with you to a point. For low-risk code leave them out, But for my 
money I would prefer to see the code in for systems like nuclear plants,
MX missiles etc..
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Hedley Rainnie. 

hedley@alaya   cmcl2!alaya!hedley