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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969 (lemmy.world)
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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They programmed it in assembly instead of a programming language back then so semicolons weren't needed.

Here is the inventor of assembly programming, Kathleen Booth.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 months ago

Woosh

You can make syntax errors in assembler, too. Ask me how I know.

Assembler for a wire-core memory computer? Isn't assembler for 8080-type systems?

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You must be really fun at LAN parties.