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Non-Myths About Programming
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/5474/062011_CACMpg35_Non-Myths1.large.jpg?1308085518&1308085518 "NASA Apollo program software engineer Margaret Hamilton")
Margaret Hamilton, chief software engineer for the development of the NASA Apollo program flight software, sitting in a mockup of the Apollo space capsule while checking programs she and her team developed. Hamilton received an Exceptional Space Act Award, one of only 128 awards granted from 1990 through 2003.
Credit: NASA
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