Code Curiosities

The Great Semicolon Heist


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In 1990, a missing semicolon in a single line of code sent a $327 million spacecraft careening off course toward Venus instead of Jupiter. We dive into the Mariner 1 disaster and other tiny punctuation marks that caused million-dollar mayhem, exploring why the smallest symbols in programming can have the biggest consequences. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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