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
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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