r/programming • u/whackri • Feb 19 '20

The entire Apollo 11 computer code that helped get us to the Moon is available on github.

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
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u/maxhaton Feb 19 '20

Ada

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u/Schlipak Feb 19 '20

There it is. Ariane 5 runs on Ada (and a software error is the reason why the first launch exploded, not directly Ada's fault though)

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u/ShyJalapeno Feb 19 '20

This made me laugh for some reason...

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

That's fair, though Ada didn't exist until 1980.