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		kensai 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ada, its design, and the language that built the l... However, even if Ada is amazing and very secure, it could not help avoid at least one airspace disaster, ain't so? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88

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pedro_caetano 4 days ago [–]

That is a strange claim, the Ariane accident was a Systems and really a Requirements flaw.

Arguably with that spec the same could have happened if they used punched cards or Haskell instead of Ada.

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