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> But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors. What about all the
by jerrylives 9y ago
> But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.
What about all the women through the 40s up until the 80s who worked as computer programmers? For a while it was a seriously female dominated field. A woman wrote the first compiler. A woman wrote the code to help get us to the moon. A woman taught my CS courses in high school and i had two female CS professors in college (and just about half my graduating class in that major was female).
Did biology change? Where's the science that says women as a whole don't enjoy IT as much? You crow on and on about science but provide no citations, no logical coherent argument.
When I see posts like this on HN, it makes me think you haven't worked closely with women. Or even know any lol
- stefantalpalaru 9y ago> A woman wrote the first compiler. That was actually just a linker/loader. What we call a "compiler" today is very different than what Hopper called back then. This was the first actual compiler, in today's meaning of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode