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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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[–] SilentMobius@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So I’m referring a number of articles that talk about it as “Listings”

So am I. I read that article as well and "Program listings" is IMHO definitive, a "program listing" is a list of the instructions in the program it is a term I used to use myself, it's just fallen out of fashion. In addition this article shows form feed paper with a snippet of the actual code, one line per instruction.

Also, it's nothing like Musk, maybe you don't work in the industry but a "Team lead" is a programmer, just with additional organisational responsibilities. If you read the rest of the article I linked there are those that consider her the first professional "Software Engineer", and mistaking a team lead for the only member of the team is a common mistake, especially when they were the first programmer hired for the Apollo mission, It's a mistake, I wouldn't classify it as a lie.