ESA's Schiaparelli Mars probe crashed because of integer overflow
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Nov 28 04:45:04 PST 2016
On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:06:14 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
> This accident also gave Bertrand Meyer (Eiffel) a lot of wind
> for his sails about design by contract
> https://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/ariane/
> in that context it might be even interesting for the D
> language, as it is one of the few languages that have (inbuilt)
> contracts.
The mistake was that hardware was upgraded, but software and
tests weren't, contracts wouldn't help unless it was spark.
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