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From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic?
Date: 1997/05/02
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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