From the 1968 NATO Software Engineering conference (https://static.isthisit.nz/images/2022-08-nato-software-engineering/static/software-engineering-nato-1968.PDF) Djikstra was already seeing the need for change:

"I am convinced that the quality of the product can never be established afterwards. Whether the correctness of a piece of software can be guaranteed or not depends greatly on the structure of the thing made. This means that the ability to convince users, or yourself, that the product is good, is closely intertwined with the design process itself."

this may be of interest…

https://infosec.exchange/@itgrrl/115189867897132911

As I have written before:

Margaret E Hamilton
Her name is Margaret E Hamilton
She wrote 400,000 lines of code
Without one bug, without one bug

Blame!
It is the cure,
cure anything
Throw the rudder down, throw the rudder down

i can see mackenzie davis playing her in the biopic.

As Margaret explained it to me, NASA wanted the lunar lander's actual landing to be 100% automated with no manual override. She disagreed, and insisted on implementing an override. NASA didn't like the idea but Margaret just went ahead and wrote it.

Of course, on Apollo 11's final approach, the lander was headed for a field of giant boulders. Neil Armstrong used Margaret's code to override the computer and manually divert to the actual, safer, landing point.

If women had continued to be a major force in computing, instead of being sidelined, the way the tech industry looks today would have been very different, she argues. “If women had been a more important part of the high tech industry all along, would so many platforms and apps have the same problems with rampant sexism and misogyny both in their workplaces and their products? Most likely not.”

@eons @lerxst @mhoye

"But by the 1970s, there was a change in mindset and women were no longer welcome in the workplace: the government and industry had grown wise to just how powerful computers were and wanted to integrate their use at a management level. “But they weren’t going to put women workers – seen as low level drones – in charge of computers,” explains Hicks. Women were systematically phased out and replaced by men who were paid more and had better job titles."

@lerxst @mhoye

I'm well aware how a lot of it happened - every time I learn a new detail it's more maddening