And I would add, you are not an "expert" until you had to reverse engineer a program who's source disappeared a decade or more ago :)
But an interesting article for modern times.
But an interesting article for modern times.
"This is wrong!"
Well, we actually do it that way because Frank told us to do it that way
"Frank isn't even here anymore! That doesn't make sense! Let's just do it the right way."
Three Weeks Later
Details please ;-)
1990: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/MCC%20Development%2...
Pirates: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/the-nasa-pirates-that-transformed...
Head Pirate: https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...
WEX/Display builder/etc: Even when I was there my young peers weren't too keen on legacy/back-end understanding. GUIs were the cool thing. I worked on something that touched many legacy subsystems so got to work with a lot of "dinosaurs" (what the Pirates called them).
MCC testing was all AM shift, pirates/youts up front, retired controllers in the back. Test MOC took 30 minutes to recycle. I always sat in back if they'd let me.