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NYT Remembers Hamilton Writing Code Before It Was Cool

Hamilton worked as a software engineer when coding was neither prestigious nor lucrative, decades before the field became male-dominated.

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  • The New York TimesBefore Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
  • Ars TechnicaRIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
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