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

    • rambaroo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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