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From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Will Boeing Use Ada To Build $9 Bln Network For Teledesic?
Date: 1997/05/04
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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