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I wonder how that was all written. Is it mainly hardware, assembly or a language such as Forth?
by code_duck 17y ago
I wonder how that was all written. Is it mainly hardware, assembly or a language such as Forth?
- zokier 17y agoI have heard that Ada is popular in systems such as this, although I'm not sure if its actually used in here.
- ChillyWater 17y agoMost of it is written in a custom language called HAL/S (High Level Assembly Language / Shuttle). Some of the nitty gritty is written in assembly. HAL/S looks a little bit like basic or FORTRAN. It was designed to be very readable and uses some interesting formatting. When you print out a module (lets say GG1ASC), it uses three lines for each line of code so that the superscripts and subscripts are above and below like they should be.