She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
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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What programming language did she use?
2 0 ReplyAGC 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
6 0 ReplyPredominantly in assembly language. There is a GiHub repository of part of the code here
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