Kent Paul Dolan, LCDR, NOAA, Retired; ODU MSCS grad student // Yet UUCP : kent@xanth.UUCP or ...{sun,harvard}!xanth!kent // Another CSNET : kent@odu.csnet ARPA : kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu \\ // Happy USPost: P.O. Box 1559, Norfolk, Virginia 23501-1559 \// Amigan! Voice : (804) 587-7760 -=][> Last one to Ceres is a rotten egg! -=][> I code reactor power plant control in C. I add "count_of_recent_alarms" to "count_of_rods_to_lift". C is weakly typed; the compiler doesn't notice. A major coolant valve sticks, a spate of alarms occur. All die. Oh, the embarrassment!