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I really wish we can do an AMA with these two,

> # THE MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE WAS CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED, AND (NOTA BENE) IS MAINTAINED BY ADLER AND EYLES.

I had to look this up, NOTA BENE is latin for,

  observe carefully or take special notice

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Random note: When I was in the 5th grade, our math teacher taught us the meaning of Nota Bene, and used a NB sign to mark important notes when deriving formulas. Still use to this day when making notes

I think I'm going to start using NOTA BENE in my source code comments just to be fancy.

[EDIT] On second thought "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" would be much better ("Shame on whosoever would think badly of it")

Postgres' code is full of NB: :)

Suddenly my Latin and Computer Science majors make more sense together.

Hence N.B.

I never made that connection. TIL. Thank you!

Also the "NOLI SE TANGERE" for "DO NOT TOUCH".

Maybe you will find this article interesting:

Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code

http://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/don-eyles-walks-us-through-th...

... and the HN discussion of this article 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036864

I found Don Eyles' website[1],

> At MET 102:39:31 the best possible confidence builder occurred — throttle down, right on time. "Ah! Throttle down... better than the simulator" commented Aldrin, "Throttle down on time!" exclaimed Armstrong, their excitement palpable. In the official transcript of communications between spacecraft and ground during the powered descent, these are the only exclamation points[11].

goosebumps.

[1] http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

NB. Is how you indicate a comment in J.

"Note well"

… lest you fall into it.

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