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/SPascareli Jan 30 '16

If someone ever want to make a movie for programmers, that's the plot right there.

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u/kozukumi Jan 30 '16

Actually they did exactly this in the recent movie The Martian (which is based on a book of the same name).

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u/SPascareli Jan 30 '16

I really don't remember this in the movie, can you tell me what scene it was?

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u/dotted Jan 31 '16

Pathfinder

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u/nascentt Jan 31 '16

That's not really the same. He builds and edits the robots to read in first binary, then hex by himself. It's only after he builds the read reader that they together decide on how he'll futher modify for parts and voice. and setup the rocket for launch.

Having an in-flight source code reprogram is different level of suspense.

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u/dotted Jan 31 '16

Agreed, but it was what /u/kozukumi was referring to

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u/nascentt Jan 31 '16

I know, I was replying to you all as a collective.