On Star Wars, it worked as a bluff, but I don't think Reagan was bluffing. I think he believed. I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they would require that all programming for applications they used would have to be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that automatically eliminated bugs. Anyone who wrote any software at Dresser Industries had to write a program in Ada, even scientists like me. But, that was back in the day when the head of computer departments for major corporations had no idea how computers worked.
> Back to the facts. The Romney team said the software was running 20-30 minutes behind. Well, I also read that parts of it simply failed....reporting 0 votes from a long list on election day. The part that targeted voting lists to cull those who haven't voted for attention can be made modular. >But in that situation, you have to really over- design for scalability. Or modular. Let the software run on 10,000 computers in every regional office, with just the sums sent to the main headquarters. Obama's software worked....and I think its because it was field tested for months....it was intended to track voters for months, not just on election day. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
