Perl gained a feature for fixing communication with the Magellan probe

[kamaal]

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/fd7895cf8ded27bc2c1cddf7c72c17d6bdc95df0..24f4b7da:/pod/perlfunc.pod

[ars]

Some verification of the bit flip issue:

http://files.seds.org/pub/spacecraft/MAGELLAN/ms12.12.89

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=8...

I found nothing that mentions perl, but Larry Wall worked at NASA in those days: http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news112f1/b135/co...

[mturmon → ars]

Yes, Larry worked at JPL, which managed the Magellan mission to Venus.