“Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience.
January 24th, 2004
“Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100
million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a
read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in
finding and fixing the problem.” LISP at JPL. (Link
occasioned by the recent resurrection
of the Spirit rover, which seems to have had problems with its
flash memory.)