From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2009-03-05T22:55:11+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: This system must have been written in Ruby... --001636283c2a890aec04645f890a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:18 PM, William James wrote: > Kenneth Tilton wrote: > > > "At 1950 feet (around 700 meters) the airplane's left altimeter > > suddenly and mistakenly registered an altitude of 8 feet (about > > 2 meters) below sea level and passed the reading on to the > > automatic control system, Van Vollenhoven said. > > > > "But the autopilot reduced gas to the engines and the plane lost > > speed, decelerating until, at a height of 450 feet (150 meters) > > it was about to stall. Warning systems alerted the pilots. > > > > ''It appears that then the pilots immediately gave gas, full > > gas, however it was too late to recover,'' ...The plane fell > > into a freshly plowed field, striking the ground tail first and > > breaking into three pieces." > > Wasn't it programmed in Lisp? My two cents on this: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2009/03/05/crash -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --001636283c2a890aec04645f890a--