I first learned to write programs in the late 1970s in FORTRAN using punch cards. I decided that computer programming was not for me because even then software was still, for the most part, painstaking created manually by humans working at the machine language level.
I have nothing but admiration for the programmers in the 1960s who managed to write all of the software necessary to send men to the moon in back on computers that used reel to reel tape drives for storage and that had less total computing capacity than a modern pocket calculator or smart phone.
“I have nothing but admiration for the programmers in the 1960s who managed to write all of the software necessary to send men to the moon and back on computers that used reel to reel tape drives for storage and that had less total computing capacity than a modern pocket calculator or smart phone.”
Feel free to revise and extend your remarks—lol:
https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm
Don’t forget all the parts were fabricated by high school graduates running manually controlled machines. ;-)