Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?

[tmoran@acm.org]

> Let's suppose that everyone adds 10 lines and quotes everything before
  Let's suppose that everyone adds 10% to what they are quoting.  Then
the size of message N is 1.1**N * OP.

> Let's suppose that everyone adds 10 lines and quotes everything before
> So the size of messages grows only linearly
  Right.  In that case new messages don't grow exponentially, but
linearly.

> But, by elementary summing of an arithmetic series, the total amount of space
  The reader of a message doesn't see the sum, but rather the latest
individual message (unless he has a really strange mail reader).  Only
someone who saves all the traffic (Google, for instance) would see
quadratic growth.  Google's disk space is not usually what people are
thinking about when they complain about long messages.  An individual
saving old messages would probably be smart enough, in the case of
complete quoting, to just save the latest, which contains all previous ones.

  In a more perfect world, everyone would quote, say, 2 lines for context,
add a concise 3 line comment, and all messages would be a constant 5 lines.