Re: Is Fortran a legal system or religion? (was: Re: Hardware issues [Re: Floating point required exponent range?])
From: Gerry Thomas (gfthomas_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/08/04
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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:02:20 -0500
"Gordon Sande" <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:BC4BB860966856CD@192.168.0.100...
[...]
> It is sort of like
> calling your self an engineer in many places where there are
"Professional
> Engineers", which can get you in serious trouble if you get the words
> wrong. This tends to matter on issues like bridges, buildings, airplanes
> and other places where the words public safety are taken seriously.
>
Do you know if the guy who programmed the Therac-25 (see IEEE Computer,
July, 1993, pages 18-41 - An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, by
Levenson and Turner) was a P. Eng. or what computer language did he use? I
understand he still works in the Canadian nuclear industry turning out
spurious code replete with integer overflows.
-- Ciao, Gerry T.
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