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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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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

She wrote code without stack overflow for her job, and the code worked as intended. That alone is worthy of respect.

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[–] Bdi89@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Absolute deity

[–] chef@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

The code:

[–] qaz@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

TIL

She invented the term "software engineering"

[–] ptitfred@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Margaret is a legend.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Undisputed GOAT.

[–] DaveFuckinMorgan@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

The fact that this has been on the front page for a day tells me that lemmy is just a shittier version of reddit.

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