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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Oh that's so hardcore

edit: looking at the git repo, it looks like it was a team of seven, and she was the lead. So it isn't all her code. Still super impressive :)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The other big notable thing for assembly is that it isn't portable. Assembly is very different for every processor architecture, unlike something like C where you may have to make some adjustments between an x86 vs ARM proc, in assembly you're basically rewriting it from scratch

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Also, this is an obscure assembly variant specifically for the computers in the Apollo mission. Not sure about the specifications on that, maybe there is a handbook, but I doubt it.

    Rewriting the code to x86 or anything seems improbable since you'd pretty much have to guess what the instructions are actually doing.

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