Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 04:30:47 PST From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #12 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Sat, 29 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Jan 1994 05:33:08 GMT From: library.ucla.edu!agate!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!merlin!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au@nntp.ucsb.edu To: ham-space@ucsd.edu References <1994Jan17.145311.25166@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, , <1994Jan24.092444.1288@physc1.byu.edu>IRO.AU Subject : Re: Vacuum tubes in spacecraft? In article <1994Jan24.092444.1288@physc1.byu.edu>, peterson@physc1.byu.edu writes: |> However, any way you look at it my hat goes off to the programmers who are able |> to fit the entire control program for the Shuttle into the memory on those |> computers. I can guarantee they are not using the bloated high-level languages |> that you normally see in the PC world to do that. |> |> Bryan Peterson, ki7td |> peterson@physc1.byu.edu As far as I know (from a job application with the European Space Agency), all the code for the Ariane system is written in Modula-2 (which, by any definition, is a high-level language). Modern optimizing compilers can do a _very_ good job. In many instances, it'd take a top-flight programmer to do better at the assembler level (as well as an awful lot more time). JohnH ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #12 ******************************