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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

What programming language did she use?

[-] Hector_McG@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Predominantly in assembly language. There is a GiHub repository of part of the code here

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

AGC was the name, it's assembly. So just a step up above bare machine code, and specific to the Apollo Guidance Computer.

The code is on GitHub. The launch program is named BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.agc

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