Girl on the Net
Fun fact: the code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on github https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.agc#L179
And if you look through it you'll see that - joyfully - it also includes original comments.
My absolute favourite thing about the Moon Code is that it includes comments like this: "TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE"
ahnlak
@girlonthenet speaking as a developer myself, I'm amazed there isn't at least one 'FIX BEFORE LAUNCH' comment...
Girl on the Net
I just think it's fun to be reminded that not only are humans pretty cool and brave and badass, making it to the literal moon with technology that was less advanced than the phone you carry in your pocket, but that at least part of that was held together by work that was 'TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE'.
I’m Tired And Everything Hurts
@girlonthenet I get the fear when I write scripts to automatically deploy software to people at work. I can't imagine the butthole-puckering that writing the code to safely land people on the FUCKING MOON would give me
Mujeres Pioneras
@girlonthenet Other thing I love about that code is Margaret Hamilton's pic with it 😍
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