@PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoComputer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969lemmy.worldimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1698arrow-down17
arrow-up1691arrow-down1imageComputer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969lemmy.world@PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareIron LynxlinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoImagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!
minus-square@Jankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-21 month agoThey 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.
minus-square@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 month agoWoosh 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?
Imagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!
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.
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?
You must be really fun at LAN parties.