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Although a few high-level languages existed at the time, compilers back then were not capable of code optimization. The only way to write code tight enough to o
by aardvark 10y ago
Although a few high-level languages existed at the time, compilers back then were not capable of code optimization. The only way to write code tight enough to operate a spacecraft would have been Assembly language.
- pklausler 10y agoNonsense. Fortran I (happy 60th birthday!) was an optimizing compiler, and would have failed had it not been.