The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code
Kind of a note to self, a reminder of some NASA programming practices for the JPL code. I’m not a programmer myself but some, if not all, of those rules can be applied to my humble projects. Avoid complex flow constructs, such as goto and recursion. All loops must have fixed bounds. This prevents runaway code. Avoid heap memory allocation. Restrict functions to a single printed page. Use a minimum of two runtime assertions per function....