Python for air traffic control?

Suchandra Thapa ssthapa at classes.cs.uchicago.edu
Thu Jul 5 11:47:29 EDT 2001


Sherpa Dave <root at 127.0.0.1> wrote:
>Suggest you read up on NASA's programming methodology.  If there's a group
>that comes as close to perfect programming as is humanly possible, it's
>that gang.
> 
>(Despite their occasional metric<>imperial foulups...)

    The metric/imperial mistake was in code written by a different group.
The group you are referring to does the shuttle code while the mars missions
were probably done by a group at JPL. 


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