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"Robert Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu> wrote in message
news:3EC3EEFF.4030601@psu.edu...
> The experience drove home to me the truth that you can't just scale up
> what works on a small project and expect it to work just as well on a
> large one. That's why Ada is so useful for programming in the large - it
> gives you the architectural tools you need so that you don't have to
> contend with the software version of a wire wrap board with 14,400 pins.
> The nuclear industry found out that scaling up a 50 megawatt submarine
> propulsion reactor to 500 or 1000 megawatts for power generation didn't
> work so well either.

Examples to back up that statement?