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Letter from Charles A. R. Hoare to Joshua Lederberg

Title:: Letter from Charles A. R. Hoare to Joshua Lederberg
Creator:: Hoare, Charles Antony Richard, 1934-
Recipient:: Lederberg, Joshua
Date:: 31 March 1981
Description:: NOTE: According to Hoare, the reported course of the VENUS probe failure was not correct. FORTRAN was not in use at the time. However, the prediction of the danger of ADA exceptions was justified by the unfortunate loss of Ariane V.
Location:: Box: 33. Folder: 120
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of Charles A. R. Hoare.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: BBGBZV
NLM ID:: 101584906X14970
Profiles Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X14970
Annotation:: Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: December 23, 1999. KW: computer flaws in spacecrafty failure; ADA language; jl 12/23/99
Lederberg Grouping:: CE. Correspondence E.