From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic?
Date: 1997/05/04
Date: 1997-05-04T00:29:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <336bd5f5.113400250@news.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc5750$1a57e7a0$d5fd82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
On 2 May 1997 23:59:55 GMT, "Nick Roberts"
<Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>... Ada would be less
>suitable than an 'artificial intelligence' language, such as Prolog, LISP,
>or other, for this section of the software, since it would be best to endow
>the software with some rudimentary 'intelligence', so it could use
>rules-based induction to solve certain problems for itself.
See, I'm not the only one to put little jokes in their postings.
Of course, the idea of "rules-based induction" in a sattelite
comms system is a bit more outre' than my suggestion that
software has mass.
Unfortunately, the only people who will get this joke are
old-timers who remember when people thought there was
really such a thing as AI.
Bob Munck
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1997-05-01 0:00 ` Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic? John Woodruff
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
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 [this message]
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
1997-05-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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1997-05-06 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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