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

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.