We're talking about flight software, not software in general. Implying that the people who drafted this guideline were blindly accepting dogma is simply wrong. Look at the list of contributors (page 5) -- it includes Ritchie, Kernighan, and Doug McIlroy -- in addition to several others who have spent their careers writing flight software.
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We're talking about flight software, not software in general. Implying that the people who drafted this guideline were blindly accepting dogma is simply wrong. Look at the list of contributors (page 5) -- it includes Ritchie, Kernighan, and Doug McIlroy -- in addition to several others who have spent their careers writing flight software.