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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: Errors aren't that simple
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From ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell):
> And what makes you think the network wouldn't have crashed if the software
> had been written in Ada (you seem to imply this)? Do you know the details
> of the cause of the crash?. 

   The crash apparently was caused by a programmer who used a "break"
   within an if (which itself was within a switch) for the purpose of
   exiting the if; the real result was to exit the switch instead.  If
   C provided a case statement rather than a switch..break system, then
   the error would most likely have been prevented.

   See the recent discussion of this topic in comp.lang.c.


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu