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		nirvana on Aug 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover softwa... How is that possible since Erlang dates from the early 1980s, and the Rover's OS is from the 1990s?

makmanalp on Aug 13, 2012 | [–]

Almost all spacecraft software is written a in similar fashion, not just Curiosity's.

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