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Margaret Hamilton wrote the code that helped reach the moon

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
“Of course you would. And whoever is writing this show, I see you putting Gary in my script. Hamilton wrote it better with a pencil.”
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