Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

submitted by umbraroze to programmer_humor
83 points | 5 comments

This is the code in the Apollo Guidance Computer for Apollo 11.

It’s part of the LUMINARY sofware, which ran on the AGC on the Lunar Module. It’s meant to check if the landing radar is pointed toward the lunar surface - because the LM went through several orientations, the landing radar could be pointed to the front or the side…

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Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

submitted by umbraroze to programmer_humor
108 points | 10 comments

This is the code in the Apollo Guidance Computer for Apollo 11.

It’s part of the LUMINARY sofware, which ran on the AGC on the Lunar Module. It’s meant to check if the landing radar is pointed toward the lunar surface - because the LM went through several orientations, the landing radar could be pointed to the front or the…

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We can just do the adult check thing the usual way.

submitted by umbraroze to linuxmemes
247 points | 38 comments

If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words “try to”, congratulations, you’re a true *nix devotee.

If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you’re working as hard as you can under the circumstances.

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