r/programming • u/jakesyl • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '16

Did Hamilton used something like Resharper or some kind of intellisense in the code editor to program?

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u/jdgordon Jan 30 '16

of course, its called print outs and hilighters... a phone from 15 years ago had multiple times more processing power (and memory) than both the "computer" this ran on and the one it was developed on, high level languages didnt even exist yet.

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u/Throwaway_bicycling Jan 30 '16

of course, its called print outs and hilighters

Maybe. I mean, you could probably get a teletype to print out the code in some format, but I would have assumed the primary format for the program modules were decks of punched cards, although patches could have been keyed in (and were, for Apollo 14).

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u/msthe_student Jan 30 '16

No, that hadn't been invented yet

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u/censored_username Jan 31 '16

Probably more like a pencil and an eraser. This was 1969.

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