Possible attack; opinions wanted

Drew Taylor drew at drewtaylor.com
Thu Jul 18 14:27:53 EDT 2002


Hear, hear Derek! The trick is convincing the managers that the upfront 
design is worth it.

And the company you mentioned develops the software that runs the space 
shuttle. I don't think anyone will disagree that this is one instance where 
the "plan before coding" mentality is absolutely essential. :-)

Drew

At 01:45 PM 7/18/02 -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:

>There was also an article on Slashdot maybe about a year ago about how
>a particular company who writes software for NASA produces flawless or
>near-flawless code for their projects.  The way they do it is by
>following good software engineering principles.

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