This is a good point, but it’s all I can see. It’s not like there are famous NASA and NIST closed source software projects. It’s hard to judge “great programme

This is a good point, but it’s all I can see. It’s not like there are famous NASA and NIST closed source software projects. It’s hard to judge “great programmers” so I think the best is to proxy using whatever factors you have access to. I guess it could also be books written and presentations given. Or contributions to other projects using nasa and nist addresses. Point being, I don’t think there’s any evidence to think that nasa and nist have great progs.