My quote was a rhetorical comment to James's posting. You are of
course correct and reflects the reality of the Ariane 4/5 software.
The best range tracking software in the world would not have
fixed a problem that was specified out of range.

w..

Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> > It
> > turned out that the cause of the failure was a software error
> > in the inertial reference system.
>
> NO NO NO
>
> Not everything that goes wrong and has software involved is a software
> error.
>
> Within its design limitations the software functioned exactly as
> specified, hence it was NOT a software error. The execption handling was
> turned off deliberately and this was fully documented.

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