When your code absolutely, always, *has* to work :-).

Scott Lovenberg scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 12:25:06 MDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> I found this really interesting:
>
> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in/159638#159638
>
> http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
>
> Makes Samba seem a bit less reliable somehow :-).
>
> Jeremy.

That is really interesting.  2.5 M LOC running in 130 threads.
Couldn't find an average of bugs per line, but I've heard that NASA
averages something like 1 bug per 1,000 LOC.  A bit apropos, NASA has
open sourced a lot of the code on Github (https://github.com/nasa/).
Fascinating stuff.

-- 
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.


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