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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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[–] Cybermass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm eternally envious of the man who got to marry her

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[–] hjeremy@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Did you know that programs for the Apollo guidance computer were woven, by hand, in to Core Rope Memory modules?

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[–] IanAtCambio@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this Jack Black's mom?

[–] Marine_Mustang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That was Judith Love Cohen.

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

How much mb is this?

[–] contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Twitter employee getting ready for a code review with Elon

[–] Bdi89@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Absolute deity

[–] ptitfred@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Margaret is a legend.

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What programming language did she use?

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

These people should have millions of followers instead we follow kardashians. No wonder the world is going to end😥

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why didn't she write in on a computer?

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[–] Marduk73@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Amazing. Punch cards are before my time but did she have to plot out the code before creating punch cards? I'm wondering about the " by hand " part of it.

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