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by f1shy 1265 days ago
This is absolutely the case. Until more or less now, the software was made with systems like simulink (but much much simpler), where a mechanical engineer could build blocks of very simple functions, using AND, NOT, OR gates, and mathematical operations.

Now the companies are migrating to real programming in C++, and it is a terrible mess. There are just not enough people with software competence to drive it.

I've seen people trying to do L4 automated systems with this blocks. Pages and pages and pages of boxes (which can only be the basic logical function, and the 4 basic arithmetic operations!!!). Of course the project didn't go anywhere!