She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
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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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Wouldn't it have worked better if she wrote it into the computer? 🤔
16 0 ReplyThe title is a bit misleading, this is a printout of the code that she indeed wrote into the computer first.
10 0 ReplyShe also had a team of engineers who I'm sure deserve at least some of the credit. This title is bunk.
5 0 ReplyIf it was printed later or written on punch cards... how much code are we actually looking at?
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I know you're likely joking, but for those who don't know: back then, code was written onto and stored in paper punch cards.
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