Apollo 11 Source Code Available
Ilya Grigorik pointed out that the source code used in the Apollo 11 mission is now available on Google Code. Interested to see the software responsible for landing a man on the moon, I browsed the lunar landing guidance equations. I’m not even going to pretend to understand, as I know full well how difficult programming in assembly can be.
Just for comparison I’ve published calculating a factorial in assembly on the Motorola 6800 (80 lines without comments) versus Ruby (3 lines). It really makes me appreciate the abstraction away from the hardware in higher generation languages. Hats off to the engineers of the 1960’s.