'When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before' — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton on the birth of software engineering
The computing industry was once unrecognizable from the one we see today, with the idea of discipline centered around writing code treated as some kind of fantasy. That was before industry pioneer Margaret Hamilton coined the term while leading the flight software team for NASA's Apollo space program in the 1960s.
Pioneering an industry
Hamilton was describing the process by which she coined the term "software engineering" and, by doing so, defined an entire computer science discipline, in an interview.
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Rather than an interview for any media outlet, the transcript for this interviewappeared in the first edition of the computer science textbook 'Fluency With Information Technology:...
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