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Higher order software techniques applied to a space shuttle prototype program

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 19))

Abstract

HOS concepts are now being applied to a prototype Shuttle flight software system. By providing software with its own meta-software and its own universal system, not only can we produce reliable systems, but we can also communicate these systems to others. Development and real-time flexibility are not sacrificed. The only limitations applied are those which prevent a potential error from occuring, i. e., the only flexibility missing is that which allows for flexibility of errors.

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  1. The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Margaret Hamilton & Saydean Zeldin

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  1. Margaret Hamilton
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B. Robinet

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Hamilton, M., Zeldin, S. (1974). Higher order software techniques applied to a space shuttle prototype program. In: Robinet, B. (eds) Programming Symposium. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-06859-7_121

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