Seems wildly unlikely. The lead time and certification hoops for software that has to run successfully a quarter-billion kilometers from earth are, well, out of this world.
"Sorry, sir, but our Mars probe crashed. It's a complete loss." "Oh no! Why?" "Well, just before it was about to dock, Tim Holy tagged a new version of Images. Turns out it had a bug in it that prevented the cameras from saving images to disk. So we were flying blind. We tried rolling back to an earlier version, but recent changes to Pkg meant that `pin` wasn't working either. So we hit the planet." "Next time, don't run master." --Tim On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 08:12:35 AM John Myles White wrote: > Not that I’m aware of. I’d say the thread is probably off-topic. > > — John > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any evidence that Julia was used to accomplish that? > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, John Myles White > > <[email protected]> wrote: I think this is the flight to Mars that > > India just finsihed. > > > > — John > > > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have no idea what this is about. Can you clarify? > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:47 AM, K Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> for the wonderful achievement with Mangalyaan! > >> > >> With a budget less than a Hollywood movie, I bet they must have largely > >> used (and supported?) open sources - Julia included?
