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NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
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Those rules were written from the point of view of people writing embedded software for extremely expensive spacecraft, where tolerating a lot of programming pain is a good tradeoff for not losing a mission. I am criticising them from the point of view of people writing programming language processors (compilers, interpreters, editors) and application software. Worse still, taking a problem that is naturally expressed using recursion and contorting it into something that manipulates an explicit stack, while possible, turns clear maintainable code into buggy spaghetti.
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