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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
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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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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it have worked better if she wrote it into the computer? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The title is a bit misleading, this is a printout of the code that she indeed wrote into the computer first.

[โ€“] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

She also had a team of engineers who I'm sure deserve at least some of the credit. This title is bunk.