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偶然间在知乎日报上看到一篇文章《膜拜女神程序员，可以靠脸吃饭的人用代码把人类送上了月球》，看完之后震惊了！遂后又google了一下，看到另一篇相关文章，列出原文供大家膜拜：https://medium.com/@3fingeredfox/margaret-hamilton-lead-software-engineer-project-apollo-158754170da8

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo[1969]

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This is a great photo I just ran across on the internets. It said it was “Margaret Hamilton, Apollo program”,but it didn’t say who Margaret Hamilton was.

Margaret Hamilton was the lead software engineer for Project Apollo.

It had long been tradition that operating calculating machines was “women’s work”; it was thought to be just key punching,like typing（女童鞋们接着往下看）. Women programmed and operated the punchcard machines to produce calculations for the Manhattan Project. Despite the tendency of the projectphysicists to minimize their contribution, this was demanding work, much morethan just moving cards from slot to slot — they wereusually given requirements from the tech people, but often designed theapproach and set up the calculations themselves.

迷人的笑脸（图片来自维基百科）

The bias that “women do the mereprogramming” extended into the early days of the computer, and it meant thatmany of the earliest and most pioneering programmers were women, learninghands-on to do things that had never been done before. We all know about Amazing GraceHopper, who wrote the first compiler.

Margaret Hamilton earned her BA inmath from Earlham College, but obviously learned about programming on the job—there was no other way. In the photo above, she is standing in front of theprintouts of the code for the Apollo guidance system, a lot of which she wrote and which she oversaw.

She was all of 31 when the Apollo11 lunar module landed on the moon, running her code. (Apollo 11 was able to landat all only because she designed the software robustly enough to handle buffer overflows and cycle-stealing.)

She’s now a tech CEO and won the‘86 Lovelace Award and the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award.

The engineers weren’t all boyswith crewcuts, short sleeve oxford shirts, and narrow black ties. That’s just afairy tale they told for a while.

Something to remember. I supposetoday’s kids are ho-hum about these recoveries of memory, but I think they’repretty neat.

这张略显苍老，但笑容依然迷人（图片来自维基百科）