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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by svec on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @07:37AM (#10506052)
Yes, definitely! I should have said:

That's a very professional process, and it should also be an inspirational process.

Just because a lot of software development is haphazard doesn't mean that it has to be! Who cares if you use Swift or Ruby or C or Lisp, ignore the details - we should see the good, mature, "grown-up" things that other people do and copy & modify them!

Jack Ganssle (an embedded systems guru) has a great interview about being "a grown-up engineer" here: http://embedded.fm/episodes/2014/5/27/53-being-a-grownup-eng...

It applies to all software and hardware systems, not just embedded systems.

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