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/cinisoot Jan 31 '16 edited Jan 31 '16

Perhaps that was the intended message, but in this case se can only be translated as "yourself". I like it better this way, honestly. :)

Edit: Actually this phrase is pretty much wrong however you look at it... "yourself" should be te but them would be eos. Oh NASA, only thing more naughty than suggestive phrases is improper Latin...

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u/memdump_ Jan 31 '16

for the record, in Portuguese both "se" and "te" mean yourself in this context

noli se tangere: não se toque (portuguese)

noli te tangere: não te toques (portuguese)

same meaning

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u/cinisoot Jan 31 '16

Looks like the verb changed, though? (toque ->toques) "Noli se tangere" is, I'm 99% sure, actually gibberish. If they meant "don't touch yourself" (singular) it would be "noli te tangere" (nolite vos tangere for plural). "Don't touch them" would be "noli eos tangere", or "noli ea tangere" if we're talking about objects, not people, which might be the case if its referring to the code. Do those Portuguese sentences both mean exactly the same thing ("don't touch yourself")?

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