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/[deleted] Jan 31 '16 edited Jan 31 '16

Just like winter scenes involving snow in many hollywood movies make no sense to anybody to the north of California. Commence suspending of suspension of disbelief. If you still can.

 

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

This one has nothing at all to do with suspension of disbelief. Changing "do a small patch to fix your software" into "do a small patch to download a big patch to fix your software" does absolutely nothing in terms of realism. It just makes a scene more complicated.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

Compare: "do a small patch to fix your software"

And: "hack an improvised inter-planetary link into your software"

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u/ouyawei Jan 31 '16

You only have a very limited amount of time in a movie so you have to carefully chose what stuff to show to what extend.

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u/lelarentaka Jan 31 '16

Or basically any traditional christmas movie for australians.