From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129888684.681335.230450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1130049078.633311.55000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1130049078.633311.55000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:27:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.213.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1130066873 67.3.213.183 (Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:27:53 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:27:53 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5897 Date: 2005-10-23T11:27:53+00:00 List-Id: Steve Whalen wrote: > Even if we only assume a linear increase in the power of computing > available (doubling every 18 months or so) in a few decades, computers Doubling every 18 months is not a linear increase. -- Jeff Carter "I unclog my nose towards you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 11