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Not only was the funding effectively unlimited, but it was developed over 20+ years (so the whole program was designed to the standard that "the next person touching this code will never have touched this system before, and the last person who touched it isn't available to ask, and it still must be correct in the face of such change."

Nothing moved very quickly, sometimes a change request took a year from initial writeup to implementation and close-out. It wasn't creative, but it worked. Very well.

Cancel the rocket launch people, we have a semantic incongruity! Correct is a binary state.

"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

If you allow for composable statements, the whole can be half correct.

Unless you're working with Quantum Correctness.

I bet you are very correct