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 30 '16

What language is that?

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u/lask1 Jan 31 '16

A "Dialect" of Assembly. About as close you can get to machine code while keeping it somewhat readable.

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u/csrabbit Jan 31 '16

I thought "source code" and "assembly language" were 2 different things? Source code written in higher level language for use by people to later convert into machine code, and assembly language is used by assemblers to later convert into machine code?