Significant whitespace

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.386.1262576043.28905.python-list at python.org>,
 David Robinow <drobinow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> > More than "not required", it was "not relevant".  This led to one of the
> > most infamous programming blunders in the early days of the space program,
> > when one programmer accidentially typed a period instead of a comma
> > resulting in the loss of a satellite:
> Interesting story. Did you make it up?

It's a fairly well known story.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.64.html#subj4.2