I just saw someone actually say that women cannot write assembly code.
🙄
A woman wrote the assembly code that got humanity onto the moon. Be grateful
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May remind that person that #assembly was invented and co-written by a woman and her husband. And she was subsequently scolded for doing so by a man named John von Neumann for wasting so much valuable computing time. Who, I assume, later came around to see the merits. 😄
I write assembly code, and I'm a woman
All the women who are smart enough to disprove misogyny are, in one way or another, stripped of their femininity by others
The woman who coded the Apollo Guidance Computer is Margaret H. Hamilton.
She is still alive today.
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Don't forget Grace Hoper, who invented the idea of programming languages and wrote compilers.
And Lovelace who built the mathematics underpinning the generalization of computer logic, effectively building assembler as a conceptual model ( since she didn't have real functioning machines of note to work with), the base structures of data encoding.
@Oggie @GhostOnTheHalfShell @jackielovescompchem32 and Radia Perlman, spanning tree protocol
@qesuto @Oggie @GhostOnTheHalfShell @jackielovescompchem32 We can also add Barbara Liskov and Sophie Wilson.
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That probably why Grace Hopper invented the compiler /s
Sadly, I couldn't figure out if she wrote the first compiler in assembler or machine code