That may be one reason that you don’t see a ton of images of them with computers—ironically better programmers back then didn’t need to hang out in machine rooms as much!😅 bsky.app/profile/hist...
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What's the baby doing now?
aug 23, 2025, 12:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Legend has it she is still distracting programmers to this day… (Just kidding, I don’t actually know what her daughter does.)
aug 23, 2025, 12:03 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m gonna link to info on both Moffatt’s memoir (which is really personal, interesting, and at times horrifying) and Shirley’s (which is more polished but also quite personal): www.fitt.org.au/the-it-girl-... www.steveshirley.com/books/
aug 23, 2025, 12:02 pm • 40 6 • view
Thank you! I love reading about the pioneers in my field of work.
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 pm • 4 0 • view
When I started in the 70s It could take an hour or more to compile and link your program before testing it. We worked through the design and logic thoroughly on paper first as well as closely proofreading for typos before submitting a job. Getting it working in one submission was the goal.
aug 23, 2025, 12:03 pm • 20 5 • view
Although the IDE has replaced the paper, programmers in the 2020s would do well to adopt these practices and goal.
aug 24, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
In my later career (just retired!) I was primarily in integration and test and I was amazed that testing was no longer considered part of the developer’s job. If it passed the little unit test it went on to me. Fair division of work but I would have been shamed to let anyone else debug my code.
aug 24, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view