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
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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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What programming language did she use?
2 0 ReplyPredominantly in assembly language. There is a GiHub repository of part of the code here
7 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
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