LH0ezVT comments on Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969 (lemmy.world)

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[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Code explains how, comments explain why. I can see what happens, but I surely cannot see why someone thought this was a good idea. Please don't write int addSomeSpecificFillerBytesBecauseTheLegacyAPICountsTheHeaderAsPartOfTheDataStructureAndTheCurrentAPIDoesNot()

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