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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 1 year ago

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

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[-] hjeremy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

Isn't this Jack Black's mom?

[-] Marine_Mustang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was Judith Love Cohen.

[-] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

How much mb is this?

[-] ptitfred@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Margaret is a legend.

[-] contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Twitter employee getting ready for a code review with Elon

[-] Bdi89@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Absolute deity

[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

What programming language did she use?

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[-] Yoz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Marduk73@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why didn't she write in on a computer?

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