"Knitting is programming": coder quips that programming predates computers by millennia
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-09
A quoted tweet praises Margaret Hamilton, who wrote Apollo 11's code before "programming" existed as a field — effectively inventing modern software engineering, with software that saved the astronauts during a landing failure. fkasummer quips over it: programming has been around for millennia, knitting is programming — "let's calm down." A software-culture bit of trivia and banter.
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