🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan22.154035.20835@shearson.com> dmandl@shearson.com writes:
>In article 22207@colnet.cmhnet.org, res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>
>>Actually, among the oddities I find delightful (and scary) about fortran
>>is the fact that
>>
>>      DO 10 I=1,5
>>
>>and
>>
>>      DO 10 I=1.5
>>
>>are both valid, but do entirely different things.
>
>If I remember correctly, it was an error exactly like this that
>blew up a U.S. rocket (complete with astronauts) back in the '70s.
>One of the programmers used a comma instead of a period, or vice
>versa, and no one caught it.  The story was related in the C.P.S.R.
>paper that argued against the "Star Wars" boondoggle.  The paper
>even included the original line of code.
>
	I think you remember incorrectly.  This was one of the early
	Polaris tests (late 50's-early 60's).  How many stories of
	U.S. astronauts being lost in flight can you remember.  I can
	remember one, and that had to do with faulty plumbing.

	Alec Chambers