Before CS became a boys' club, Margaret Hamilton wrote the code
ChrisArchitect · hn · 2026-10-10
A New York Times feature revisits Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of Apollo's onboard flight software before computer science became male-dominated, and helped define the very discipline of software engineering.
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