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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: = vs ==, and do 10 i = 1.3
Message-ID: <10109@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 07:20:15 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <495@xyzzy.UUCP> <9930@mimsy.UUCP> <609@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <609@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>... Claiming that its the programmer at fault won't, help you when your
>software clashes

[orange software for a red button? :-) ]

>causing major damage  (as in a Venus probe that had a bug in the
>software to the degree: for i=1.100 in Fortran ).  

Actually, the most accurate reports as to the legendary Venus Probe
Bug indicate that the problem was a missing hyphen, not a dot changed
to a comma.
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