Maple and Tea


 * - Would the car industry advance as fast as computers, the car would cost one dollar and would run a million km with one gallon of gasoline.
 * - Would the transport advance so fast as your company, we would have to buy a new car each time when one builds a new road or even draws a new line at the pavement.




 * Here is the company C  of computers; they master:
 * Per each two years, their PCs run twice faster.


 * Here is company S of the soft; they work hard as plowers,
 * So, each new release runs 0.7 times slower;
 * The soft is to run at the user's PC,
 * Which is made, of course, by the company C.


 * Here is user U, buys from C and from S,
 * the newest model and the latest release.
 * U presses some key, say, key number K;
 * The soft S responds, with some delay,
 * during some time, say, during time t,
 * to let user U to have some tea.


 * How many releases per year does sell S to U
 * to let him have tea, while he has nothing to do,
 * just waiting response by the soft to key K,
 * keeping the same time t  of delay,
 * neutralizing the efforts of company C
 * to run faster U's task at his modern PC?


 * This problem above is not correct, because
 * The tea-concern, together with C, of course,
 * support the efforts of the company S
 * to make even bigger the newest release,
 * To force U buy more tea and a newest PC,
 * to boost business of C and the concern of tea.

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The poem was written comparing the performance of MAPLE-10 with previous versions.