Yeah, they still wrote everything in assembler back then. The first higher programming languages were only just appearing. Now, whether to thank or blame RADM Hopper for that is a wholly different Ella. Maye even Salmon-Ella.
FTR, Salmon-Ella was a real human, and cooked at a salmon anglers’ hotel. There are no records of anyone having ever got sick from her cooking, except maybe from overeating…