Electrical engineering used to be exclusively about relays and switches, state machines, and signals. With these came defined functionality. And, by the time I started my career in hardware-software integration for aerospace, we tried to limit what was done in software, preferring to use techniques that were stable, but no longer at the forefront of commercially available systems...
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