After all, she did manage writing software which put a man on the moon and is generally recognized as some of the most solid and bug-free software ever. Nevertheless Dijkstra is completely dismissive (and downright condescending) because they don't use the theoretically correct approach.
For anyone else who found the transcription to plaintext difficult to follow at times (some formatting losses). The second is a slightly edited version from 5 days after the first.
Most of the "take-down of Margaret Hamilton's methodology" is directed at the writing in 3 texts, and a large chunk is just a brutal description of one James Martin and his book Program Design which Is Provably Correct.
Quoting Dijkstra:
> I have never had reasons to consider James Martin as a competent computing scientist, but that he is a competent salesman I don’t doubt: he must have seen a market for [2] at $200 apiece. The book is so terrible that that is a depressing thought.
After all, she did manage writing software which put a man on the moon and is generally recognized as some of the most solid and bug-free software ever. Nevertheless Dijkstra is completely dismissive (and downright condescending) because they don't use the theoretically correct approach.