| ▲ | cheepin a day ago | |
All of the things you mentioned are designed and tested incrementally. Furthermore software has been used on Mars missions in the past, and that software was also developed incrementally. It’s proposed as the best way because it’s a way that has a track record | ||
| ▲ | roeles 12 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> All of the things you mentioned are designed and tested incrementally. In a different way that what is proposed in this thread. We don't build a small bridge and grow it. We build small bridges, develop a theory for building bridges and use that to design the big bridge. I don't know of any theory of computing that would help us design a "big" program at once. | ||