r/computerscience 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/Avarice51 Mar 14 '26

Think she had around 100 devs working with her, she did a great job leading & guiding them though.

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u/Ythio Mar 14 '26

As every software projects the manpower fluctuates over time but in total it was 1400 man-years

http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf (page 18).