From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic?
Date: 1997/05/02
Date: 1997-05-02T15:41:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <336a0a15.85432432@news.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: udd8rbm051.fsf@tanana.llnl.gov
On 01 May 1997 13:02:18 -0700, woodruff@tanana.llnl.gov (John
Woodruff) wrote:
> > ... This means a whole lot of software on each
> > (perhaps 20% of the total weight)
>
>Wow! 200 Kg of software; just imagine.
>
>It is a "good thing" (tm) that preferred Ada style no longer prescribes
>UPPER CASE Identifiers, as it would be even harder to get the software
>down to weight with all those HEAVY characters ..... ;-)
Come on! Everybody knows that the source code is compiled into
binary object code, and that the important thing is to maximize the
number of 0's because they weight much less than 1's.
Jeez! I put in one little joke, and everybody makes comments on it
and ignores the main point of the posting.
Bob Munck@acm.org
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1997-05-01 0:00 ` Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic? Rennie Allen
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-05-01 0:00 ` John Woodruff
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Munck [this message]
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-05-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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