
Story: LISP in Space
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Language That Decided What the Spacecraft Was Going to Do
Ran's portion was called the executive soas it was the software that decided, o this is going to do next in response to the input data. It was programmed using another one of these customed languages that was written in lisp. This language was designed in such a way that, like lisp, it the structure of the language would prevent you from writing code that had certain kinds of issues. But still, three days of controlling a spacecraft is no simple matter. And got this atonomous system down grated to a flight experiment. Instead of controlling deep space for the whole trip, it would control it for just three days.
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