Knowing this, I fought to legitimize software so that both software engineering and those who built it would receive the respect they deserved, so I began using the term “software engineering” to differentiate it from hardware and other forms of engineering.
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Translated from "Margaret Hamilton, la pionera de la programación que llevó el Apolo a la Luna (Margaret Hamilton, the programming pioneer who took Apollo to the Moon)". Interview by Jaime Rubio Hancock, published online at: Verne – El País, December 25, 2014.