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25: A deliberately bad program

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Why a Bomb Needs a Computer

This is a story told by Kent Mitchell. He does not name the specific missile he was working for. But apparently they did not care about memory leaks because sooner or later it was going to blow up. We go to our guests for some of the questions in each episode. As ever, I don't know the answers.

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