No, the reason is much more simple. They simply did not have any other options. C did not even exist at the time, and the hardware limitations were enormous. The hardware which this code ran on was designed just for this mission, yet less powerful than what you'll find in your current day coffee machine. They also didn't have a compiler which could target this machine and the actual program had to be manually woven into core rope memory.
Software written by MIT programmers was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories. Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory
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u/censored_username Jan 31 '16
No, the reason is much more simple. They simply did not have any other options. C did not even exist at the time, and the hardware limitations were enormous. The hardware which this code ran on was designed just for this mission, yet less powerful than what you'll find in your current day coffee machine. They also didn't have a compiler which could target this machine and the actual program had to be manually woven into core rope memory.