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- Ham-Space Digest Sat, 29 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 12
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- Today's Topics:
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- 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
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- References <1994Jan17.145311.25166@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <CK0E5n.LG9@world.std.com>, <1994Jan24.092444.1288@physc1.byu.edu>IRO.AU
- Subject : Re: Vacuum tubes in spacecraft?
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- In article <1994Jan24.092444.1288@physc1.byu.edu>, peterson@physc1.byu.edu writes:
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- |> 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
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- 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).
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- 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
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