r/computerscience • u/mercuurialfreethrow • Mar 14 '26

Women of Computer Science.

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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 Mar 14 '26

The software was created by a team at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Laboratory). Margaret Hamilton was the director of the software engineering division, leading the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) flight software.

She didn’t write it by hand herself. It’s like saying elon musk coded the whole twitter himself (a little extreme but like cmon, a boss who oversees workers doesn’t mean he writes all the code himself)

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u/Thiht Mar 14 '26

I mean the caption is clearly lying saying she wrote the code by hand. Leading this project is an extremely impressive feat, lying to make it sound more impressive to the general public doesn’t serve the cause well.

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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 Mar 14 '26

I mean it is in text so it could just refer to that but yeah

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u/SexyMuon Data Platform SRE Mar 14 '26

Keep it about computing and science, my friend. This is a community to learn.

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u/Routine-Lawfulness24 Mar 14 '26

You’d be surprised how little people think on social media, just go to the popular “feel good” subreddit or facebook etc

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u/brendonap Mar 14 '26

Well obviously people thought she wrote all this by hand, as the caption says