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Quote by Sophie Wilson
I was writing code entirely by hand on pieces of paper.
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The speaker describes writing computer code manually, without using a computer while composing it. “Entirely by hand” stresses that every part was written on paper, showing a fully paper-based way of preparing the code.
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- Computer History Museum Oral History of Sophie Wilson
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