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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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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

You must be really fun at LAN parties.