[OT] We Choose The Moon

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ben Scott<mailvortex at gmail.com> wrote:
>  This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 ...

  Marginally closer to topic than my last: Here's a report from an
interview (done circa 1994) with one of the programmers who worked on
the software for the Apollo lunar lander computer.  I find it
fascinating:

http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=ApolloComputer

  Here's a blog post about a blog post about how the Apollo computer
source code has been uploaded into Google Code.  I find the
observation of the comments in the source code to be... very
interesting.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3522

-- Ben