Ariane 5
> A simple floating point-to-integer conversion failure in the inertial reference software killed the guidance system.
No it wasn't.
People who think that summarising a complex chain of events into a single simplistic failure will somehow enable their own projects to avoid similar complex causal chains are kidding themselves.
Much better to give examples of such chains so that developers are better able to identify them when they occur in their own projects.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
