"because dead programmers don't write good code."
More to the point, Astronauts (c.f. end-users) usually don't know how to
write code at all.
Richmond.
On 10/3/17 9:59 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
No, I am sure we put men on the moon. But we didn't stay there and there are no plans to
actually colonize it. And the resources just to do that were "astronomical"
(pardon the pun). There was of cource some redundancy, but some things cannot be
repaired, as we learned with Apollo 13. Oh we patched it up enough to get them back, but
they almost didn't make it even then, and all they had to do really was slingshot around
the moon and get back.
Imagine now you are hurtling towards your next stop, Mars, and something
serious goes bad. How do you repair it? If you can't, how do you turn around?
You cannot exactly make a right turn at the speeds you are going, and there are
no planetary bodies to slingshot around. You have to burn an inordinate amount
of fuel to stop, then turn around, then burn an extraordinary amount of fuel to
get back, and the Earth isn't standing still during all this. Did you bring the
fuel to do that?
The hardware alone for that kind of space travel would make the moon launch
look like a paper airplane. And the software for such a trip had better damn
well be bug proof, because dead programmers don't write good code.
Bob S
On Oct 3, 2017, at 07:31 , Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
And since you brought it up what are are you saying? We have gone to the
Moon or Not, or that programming and engineering is too complex to do
create the particular software system that Bret Victor envisages?
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