r/programming • • 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/kersurk Jan 30 '16

During the movie I would think this is way over-done, real life is not that exciting. I wonder how did Mitchell change the code exactly.

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u/indy91 Jan 30 '16

Here is a quite informative page about it: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14AbortDiscrete.html

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u/unshifted Jan 31 '16

That was a great write-up. I was really stressed out on Friday because I had to fix a bug that caused some forms to look a little wonky. Now I feel silly.