The Sophowere Bug

"I didn't make it sufficiently clear to the guide that i hired to write this code, who was working under my supervision. He just called a lower level construct and lisp in order to get it t work," he said. "That did an end run around the safety guarantees of the language." The mission only happened once, and it did deadlock. So then we had to decide whether to try to salvage this session by by injecting some event to unwedge it, which we actually did. Thanks to the magic of lisp and the mind blowing idea of having a live repel on a spacecraft,. the mission was saved. But the development process was so pain follen and fraught