As a teenager I spent 1000’s of hours pouring over 6502 listings completely oblivious to assembly language's invention 30 years earlier. We don’t hear enough about the pioneers of digital (or indeed analogue) computing.

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

#computing #history #kathleenBooth #contractedNotation

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

Searched, didn't find it. Deserves her own hashtag in these parts, even if belatedly: #KathleenBooth

One of the better obits: it includes some fun references: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

Look no further for the embodiment of a transcendent personality.

Vale #KathleenBooth, the inventor of Assembly Language, a low-level #programming language used to communicate granular instructions to hardware. She was 100. You use Assembly Language every time you use a computer or phone.

Via @[email protected] for @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/