I've never heard of yaYUL assembler before. Quick google search turned up an 
interesting explanation:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/yaYUL.html
Just as a sign of how things have changed, I think the Mars Rover's (Curiosity) 
programs were mostly written in Java. 

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:31:37 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jchat] code readability
> 
> I'm thinking there may one day be a field of software archaeology.  Maybe
> something to do in our retirement years?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I was pointed at
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/CSM_GEOMETRY.agc.html
> > today.
> >
> > That's probably worth studying, as an artifact of what maintainable
> > code looks like. The underlying feat (putting people on the moon) has
> > not been equaled since then.
> >
> > That said, it's quite possible that modern computational artifacts
> > (such as video codecs, or whatever) are comparably readable (or
> > unreadable - depending on the patience and interests of the reader).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
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> 
> 
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> Devon McCormick, CFA
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