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It's coded in a really interest dialect. Completely unreadable to me, at least.

I wonder what the Shuttle source looks like. I'd imagine its in a higher level language (C?), and that it's likely been rewritten several times since the 70s. It's amazing to me that people wrote this.




You may find this reference helpful: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/assembly_language_manual.html

Found it after following up the http://ibiblio.org/apollo link in a file header. :)


I'd be surprised if it wasn't Ada. Tho' Ada code was responsible for Ariane 5 exploding, so it's not a 'silver bullet'.


Well, Ada usually runs more safely if you don't explicitly disable error handling, which is what they did to the Ariane 5.




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