On the quality and complexity of software within FRC

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Ether

And my point was that I agreed with you for FRC.

But I sure hope you guys aren't suggesting that should be the "hear no evil, see no evil" attitude of the lead project engineer of a project where human life hangs in the balance.

It's certainly not the way I ran my projects.

I'm absolutely not suggesting that Ether. If you run your projects that way even when human lives don't hang in the balance you'll end up with unhappy customers.

I'm saying that you shouldn't be spending a bunch of extra time optimizing loops and building adaptable code with the assumption that you'll need that optimization or need to adapt it in the future. In most (not all) cases it will be a wast of time and money.