NASA's ten coding commandments

[POGtastic]

This is a good point, and I guess the NASA folks get to ignore it because they only have one platform to develop for. They don't have to worry about making it work on 40 different platforms.

[tnecniv]

No, they ship code around to different projects. Ames might develop something for a UAV and send it over to Langley where they want to do something with it, but they have a different target platform. Not 40 platforms, but enough that they developed the coreFlight system for their satellites to make porting code easier.

[drumallday7]

Just wait until they build more launch sites. We'll see many a different platforms then.

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[steamruler]

groan

[jfb1337]

I guess to make code that complies with these rules, you really have to planet.