From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:00:52 GMT
Date: 2002-08-26T18:00:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccadn9xzxn.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d5cfe91.17985251@news.demon.co.uk
john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) writes:
> Ah, but then the manager with some vague [odd] idea of software comes
> in and says "If it doesn't cost anything, it can't be any good" :-)
That reminds me of a talk I heard some years ago, given by a guy from
NASA. He was talking about the software for the Apollo program. They
had weight budgets for all the pieces of the rocket -- obviously you
want to make the thing as light as possible if you're launching it into
space. So the manager asked the software guy how much the software
would weigh. He said software doesn't weigh anything. The manager said
come on, these weight budgets are very important, even if it's not much,
every ounce counts. The software guy tried in vain to convince the
manager that the weight of software really is zero. Eventually the
software guy showed the manager a deck of punch cards, and said, See the
holes? That's the software. Then the manager understood.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 8:46 POLL: Would you use Ada more if Juha Valimaki
2002-08-16 11:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 11:11 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 11:54 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 12:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:17 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:32 ` John McCabe
2002-08-26 18:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2002-08-27 8:28 ` John McCabe
2002-08-27 22:56 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-27 18:23 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-27 19:24 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-28 14:53 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-28 17:07 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-28 17:38 ` Darren New
2002-08-28 18:29 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-29 0:40 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-28 1:41 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 5:52 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 19:49 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 15:05 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-28 20:24 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-17 4:09 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-17 10:12 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 10:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-17 18:00 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 19:45 ` Caffeine Junky
2002-08-18 3:41 ` AG
2002-08-17 20:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-17 21:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-18 8:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-19 0:50 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 13:33 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 13:41 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:51 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 15:03 ` Darren New
2002-08-16 15:24 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 16:26 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-01 22:33 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-08-16 15:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 16:17 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 16:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 18:03 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 18:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 23:11 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-16 20:46 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-17 6:22 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-17 15:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 16:09 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 17:00 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 21:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-19 8:28 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 17:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 16:28 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-19 8:30 ` John McCabe
2002-08-19 14:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 18:27 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-16 21:19 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-16 23:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-17 7:49 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 10:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 12:43 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 14:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-17 14:03 ` chris.danx
2002-08-17 19:04 ` Point of Information was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-20 0:17 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 20:20 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-17 10:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-18 2:05 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-19 8:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-20 15:48 ` pontius
2002-08-16 16:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 16:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-16 17:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 21:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 4:04 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-16 11:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 12:33 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:19 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 16:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-18 1:52 ` AG
2002-08-19 2:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-16 18:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-18 22:44 ` David Thompson
2002-08-17 10:16 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 11:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:38 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2002-09-01 21:40 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-08-16 15:27 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-09-01 21:42 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-09-01 21:36 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-09-02 23:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-03 2:33 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-03 7:21 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-16 14:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-19 17:10 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-19 17:50 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-19 20:53 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-20 8:29 ` John McCabe
2002-08-20 16:04 ` Kevin Cline
2002-08-17 14:21 ` POLL: " chris.danx
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2002-08-28 17:43 Anatoly Chernyshev
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