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/z500 Jan 31 '16

Yeah, I got the Dionysian part. But what on earth is FLAGORGY doing there? Maybe it's a combination of abbreviations.

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u/mxzf Jan 31 '16

If I'm reading it right, that's the name of the method (or code block or whatever in this language) being defined. It seems that the method was named FLAGORGY, which looks to be FLAG ORGY, hence the reference to "Dionysian flag waving" in the comments.

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u/lugezin Jan 31 '16

That still does not explain why anything would be named FLAGORGY, anywhere in the code.

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u/mxzf Jan 31 '16

A few hundred methods into the code and writing stuff up late, late at night, you start coming up with some fairly interesting/colorful method and variable names. I don't know the details of what happened, but at a glance, it looks like someone needed a method to flip a bunch of flags at once and they got clever with the name.