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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (thelemmy.club)
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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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[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Assembly. Like most embedded systems (at least up until we had enough power to waste on higher languages)

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