Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit...
by dragonwriter on Sunday November 17, 2024 @08:48PM
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> Any professional computer programmer here knows more in their field than a programmer from 70’s
Programming for regimes with different constraints is…very different. In a very real sense, “their field” for most modern programmers isn’t even the same field as developing software for 1970s deep space probes, plus, the issue wasn’t even about software but about end-to-end building and launching space probes (that was both what the quote was about and the field of the Voyager project manager.
But thanks for demonstrating the kind of hubris that the post you were responding to described.
Programming for regimes with different constraints is…very different. In a very real sense, “their field” for most modern programmers isn’t even the same field as developing software for 1970s deep space probes, plus, the issue wasn’t even about software but about end-to-end building and launching space probes (that was both what the quote was about and the field of the Voyager project manager.
But thanks for demonstrating the kind of hubris that the post you were responding to described.