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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it isn't, unless you think PMs are programmers. She was the lead developer and created the foundation for the software, then drove the project home. She wasn't a non-technical person writing requirements for engineers to work on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But from that to the title statement of "she wrote ALL the code" is a long stretch, which is where my analogy is coming from