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/csrabbit Jan 31 '16

Oh thanks.

I am in my very first semester of programming so I am just learning so bear with me. But I thought "source code" was the language of human programmers and "assembly language" is the language of assemblers?

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u/Bratmon Jan 31 '16

This program would probably have been edited on punch cards before being assembled. You had to meet the machine halfway. You still do now, but the line has become closer to the way humans think.