Comments by "Inconspicuous Chap" (@InconspicuousChap) on "how NASA writes space-proof code" video.

  1. The 10-th rule is Greenspun's Tenth Rule I suppose.
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  2. And the most important rule as first thing: #00 Don't use idiots for the job.
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  3. #3 Fully agree. Heap sucks. It's against the math. Lots of efficient algorithms (e.g. Radix Sort) were banned for decades just because of a dynamic storage requirement and reinvented later with fixed memory requirements. Heap memory usage leads to fragmentation and eventually to unavoidable memory leaks even if malloc/free balance is perfectly obeyed. Juniors can rely on a runtime library to do "the magic" that they don't understand, and when it [rather quickly] comes to memory exhausting, they would just recommend to restart it. Responsible programmers whose services' uptime is supposed to be months or years should control that matter.
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