As crude as the shuttle looks mechanically, the software it runs is about as close to perfect as any piece of software ever written.
This is a great article on how the software that runs the shuttle:
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True to form, if the coders and testers find too few errors, everyone works the process until reality and the predictions match.
"We never let anything go," says Patti Thornton, a senior manager. "We do just the opposite: we let everything bother us."
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/...tml?page=0%2C0