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Title: Robust code - On Curiosity and its software
Post by: Mark0 on August 13, 2012, 07:07 AM
An interesting post linked on OS news (http://www.osnews.com/):

JLOUIS Ramblings - Getting 2.5 Megalines of code to behave (http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.nl/2012/08/getting-25-megalines-of-code-to-behave.html)

I cannot help but speculate on how the software on the Curiosity rover has been constructed. We know that most of the code is written in C and that it comprises 2.5 Megalines of code, roughly[1]. One may wonder why it is possible to write such a complex system and have it work. This is the Erlang programmers view.