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GCHQ to pore over blueprints of Chinese built Brit nuke plants

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Re: Blueprint?

"is there a course I can go on to learn how to "pore over software blueprints"?"

I once went for a job interview at a mechanical engineering company that was dipping a toe in computer controlled instrumentation.

The programs were documented on flowcharts drawn by draughtsmen on A0 sheets because that was what fitted the document archive. A single code point change could take weeks to implement. That's what I call firmware.

Did not get job, should not have laughed when shown flowcharts.

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