I never knew what code post-80's NASA regulars actually wrote. When the MCC was moved off of the mainframe (MOC), it was all contractors. A crazy mix of skillse

I never knew what code post-80's NASA regulars actually wrote. When the MCC was moved off of the mainframe (MOC), it was all contractors. A crazy mix of skillsets in C/C++. A lot of subsystems/silos. Working across silos, it was incredible the brain trust you could meet from the old crowd (often retirees brought in for 2AM tests). I learned a lot of kids were afraid to say wtf. These old coots would love to talk for hours if you asked why something was done that way. Considering the TRAJ assembly probably went back to DEW Line, I have no idea how they peeled that logic off. I still run into LockMart folks running ancient ATC code on Unix variants that have been out of service for over a decade. Our code will never last that long.