Re: Rocket Science

["Linus D. Toy" <linust@mindspring.com>]

OTOH, satellites, space, defense & aircraft code goes through some
incredible steps to get near zero-defect.  simplicity counts for something
here.  

years ago, there used to be a quote in my company (one of those business
consulting types) that a line of code (COBOL) cost us $12, $24 if written by
IBM, and $100 if it had to be ZDC.  thank god i never had to code in COBOL!

At 09:47 AM 1/10/97 EST, Mark Quinn/HNS wrote:
>radio system).  Contrary to what you might believe, the
>complexity and technology in that is at least 10 times greater
>than anything in satellites (at least apart from the materials
>science).  The computers used in the Shuttle are 30yr old
>technology!
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