Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Terry Yager" <tyger69@chartermi.net>]

They did do it for less...and look what happened.  NASA=Need Another Seven
Astronauts...

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Jam the computer...trash every lethal machine in the land!
--Timothy Leary
Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message
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> Tjoff Tjonk wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:44:59 -0400, jeff findley wrote:
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> >>"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> writes:
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> >>>The truth is powerful computers are much cheaper than paying for
quality
> >>>programming.  If you are Micro$loth you get others to pay for your bad
> >>>programming and they have to buy the new computers to run the new poor
> >>>quality software to run it on since the older computers don't have the
> >>>"horse-power".  Of course we sent men to the moon using computers with
less
> >>>"horse-power" than the IBM-PC (8088).  I admit that the astronauts did
not
> >>>need to use MS Word though.
> >>
> >>Even more impressive is the hardware that sent them to the moon and
> >>back was mostly designed by guys with sliderules rather than the
> >>scientific calculators that computers have largely replaced today.
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> >
> > Most of us agree with that this was a very impressive feat, but it did
> > cost enormous amounts of money....
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> Almost anything being done for the first time costs huge amounts of
> money. In this case, when designing, testing, constructing and using the
> most powerful machine in the history of the human race, as well as the
> tools to make and test said machine, well, if it could have been done
> for less don't you think they would have?
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