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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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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

TIL

She invented the term "software engineering"

[-] sheetmysharts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This comment is completely underrated!

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