They are very conservative with writing software in aerospace. One of my first jobs out of school was working as a controls engineer for satellites, where I tes

They are very conservative with writing software in aerospace. One of my first jobs out of school was working as a controls engineer for satellites, where I tested the controls and data handling subsystems. For a new satellite, my department determined either we needed to put a single minus sign in our standard code or the structures group needed to design some exotic assembly for some antennas and sensors. They sent me, the new guy, to the systems engineering meeting to discuss this - because it was a given they would NOT try to update the code when there was another solution, however complicated it was.