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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by MakunaHatata to c/nextfuckinglevel
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[–] Marduk73 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Amazing. Punch cards are before my time but did she have to plot out the code before creating punch cards? I'm wondering about the " by hand " part of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a keyboard involved. They don't use a hole puncher lol.

[–] Marduk73 5 points 2 years ago

I was just grasping at straws. Kinda wanted to know more as it sounds like a good story.

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