50th Anniversary of Apollo and Apollo 11 had a hidden hero: the software! And behind this developers!
One of them, Don Eyles, who wrote in the comments on the code on the flame ignition code: “BURN_BABY_BURN”.
Think of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) had to execute about 145,000 lines of code, compared to the approximately 62 million lines of code required today for Facebook and more than 2 billion lines of Google code.
