in reply to Perl in space?

Any chance we could get a flavour of the code? A desensitised sample perhaps.

If not did it use strict and warnings? Did any other CPAN modules make the grade? Is it OO or procedural, Moose or Modern?

Which version? Was it a standard interpreter or embedded or otherwise heaviliy customised?

How many lines of code? What testing regime do you use? Basically anything that gives us a feel for the way perl was used.

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Re^2: Perl in space?
by Dr. Zowie (Sexton) on Aug 26, 2010 at 16:07 UTC
    We used strict and warnings. We did module-level testing and ran several hours of simulated missions in the laboratory before delivery, and during integration at the missile range the software ran through several simulated flights while fully integrated with the host flight stack.

    It was a few hundred lines of not very dense Perl, mostly doing IPC and spawning compiled commands (that did the heavy lifting for individual control functions) under Gentoo Linux. We used it to control three computers that were connected by an on-bird LAN.

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