"Margaret Hamilton popularized and coined the term 'software engineering' to give the discipline the same legitimacy as hardware engineering".
replyBut oh well, who was she, just the engineer who wrote the software for the Apollo 11. Probably she had no idea what she was talking about.
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That's new to me, I didn't know she coined the term. She's the first true "software engineer" then, I suppose. I remember her from that historic photo where she's standing next to a pile of code printed out, a stack talled than her.
replyNot to be confused with Margaret Hamilton the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz.