It's probably less assuming that a programmer is male, and more the fact that, at the time, "he" was well-accepted as a gender-neutral pronoun: http://en.wikip

It's probably less assuming that a programmer is male, and more the fact that, at the time, "he" was well-accepted as a gender-neutral pronoun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun