NASA has just released seriously free software

[JBW]

anyone interested in state of the art lossless file compression?

http://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/LHD/

Here's the catalogue

https://software.nasa.gov/NASA_Softw...og_2017-18.pdf

here's the story

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/3...tware-for-free

[Donald]

I think that would be fascinating .... if I understood it.

[John 2]

I think that would be fascinating .... if I understood it.

plus if the authors grasp of grammar reflects NASSA's technical capability, they won't be sending me into orbit anytime in the near future.

[JBW]

plus if the authors grasp of grammar reflects NASSA's technical capability, they won't be sending me into orbit anytime in the near future.

1 S in NASA

[John 2]

Quite right . Prompted by:

"........usess C-code for simplicity."

Double S's sseem to be in vogue. The next ssentence could have been better worded ass well. Ass it iss, on first reading, it lookss like it changess from present to passt tense half way through.

[paintingwithlight]

plus if the authors grasp of grammar reflects NASSA's technical capability, they won't be sending me into orbit anytime in the near future.

NASA is bureaucratic . The ability to post on NASA's website is likely restricted to a small number of administrative assistants. I'd be surprised if a single scientist had access to make a post on a (non-internal only) NASA's website. There is no need to be afraid of correlations between posting errors and coding errors.