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Héctor,
I can't say for certain but that sounds like an 'urban myth' to me. It
is more likely that direct assembly language of some sort was used. The
following NASA article, "Voyager - The flying computer center", doesn't
mention languages but the description of the limited resources of the
hardware implies that very low-level programming techniques would need
to be used:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Ch6-2.html
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hector [mailto:460853{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Monday, 1 March 2004 12:41 AM
> To: bob{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Cc: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: RE: Voyager
>
>
> The Voyager probe was programmed in Fortran language. For
> that, there were a great "bug", because in Fortran, the way
> of defining assingnements is nearly the same to the way of
> defining loops. You can find more info about it in this link:
>
http://lists.humbug.org.au/archives/general/1998-October/011248.html
And I've heard this history from two ways, so it's possibly true.
Regards, Héctor.
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