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-square83linkfedilinkarrow-up1704arrow-down17
arrow-up1697arrow-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.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square83linkfedilink
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoImagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·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-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 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?
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYou must be really fun at LAN parties.
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.