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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 (infosec.pub)
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[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Code explains how, comments explain why. I can see what happens, but I surely cannot see why someone thought this was a good idea. Please don't write int addSomeSpecificFillerBytesBecauseTheLegacyAPICountsTheHeaderAsPartOfTheDataStructureAndTheCurrentAPIDoesNot()