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The Apollo 11 Code Is Open Source (and It's Hilarious)
The source code for the Apollo 11 guidance computer, written at MIT in the 1960s, is freely available online, and programmers are having fun reading it. Comments and variable names left by engineers are being shared for their dry humour, including a famous file labeled with a burn on garbage collection, drawing fresh attention to the team who got humans to the Moon with astonishingly primitive tools.
Why now: The code has resurfaced as a popular piece of software history, with its witty comments amusing a new generation of developers.
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