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Nothing special as those are like MISRA C rules from automotive industry.

I see that is repackaging of low level rules and not some „magical 10 development rules” that would apply to your yet another CRUD app.

Not to bash article just informing people who would write „software engineering is not real engineering” - it is real engineering and there are norms. Just because someone did not hear about standards and rules and practices doesn’t mean there are none.



Of course the more forty year old rules you follow the more engineering it is. Using a better programming language that doesn't depend on organisational process for safety is not engineering - there's no standard for that.


How did you come up with such conclusion?

Argument is only that there is a lot of proper engineering in software development - whether it is implementing memory safety by default in new languages or having organizational processes. All is there and I only dislike opinions that say software development is immature new field. It is not.

Article was also about NASA organization rules so pointing to MISRA was argument „it is. It only NASA and those are not so special rules”.




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