Un long article publié par le MIT revenant sur la carrière de Margaret Hamilton, pionnière de l’ingénierie logicielle.
[…] I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering […], When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”