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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] phareous 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair though, i don’t think she took sole credit nor did the blackhole researcher. Others in the media, etc. did that

[–] Siegfried 3 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, the black hole researcher wasn't the lead.