Re:It’s hard work printing nothing
by smilekzs on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:45PM
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"In the embedded world" covers a huge area, including mission-critical avionics code, which likely has much higher safety standard than, say, Android.
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Although from hearing about the Apollo Guidance Computer, it's just as much of a miracle they were able to get it to work without any debugging or compilers, with basically one shot to write the program to ROM.
Re:It’s hard work printing nothing
by roberthensing on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:13AM
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Well they put in an effort of 1400 man years for just the software. They even built an interpreter, because (flight/trajectory) requirements were changing all the time.
Also: "The highest level of testing was performed with a high fidelity digital simulation of the computer, spacecraft hardware, and mission environment."
And the architecture of the whole system is commonly an infinite while loop.