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Said "software on satellite" story is from Ron Garret, for anyone interested. https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html > Du
by maxwelljoslyn 3y ago
Said "software on satellite" story is from Ron Garret, for anyone interested.
https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
> During that time we were able to debug and fix a race condition that had not shown up during ground testing. (Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem.