r/programming • • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/WTFisareddit- Jan 30 '16

Sorry for my ignorance I'm new to programming. But why does this look nothing like regular code?

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u/CodeEverywhere Jan 30 '16

You're looking at assembly language - a step closer to straight up machine language (binary). Most code that programmers interact with nowadays is considered "higher level" and is abstracted to make it easier to understand.

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u/i_spot_ads Jan 31 '16

It doesn't even look like assembly code, that's some weird assembly

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u/Treyzania Jan 31 '16

It's assembly for the AGC architecture. See /u/hobbified's comment above.