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Did you leave a comment for the guy who has to fix it in 30 years?
by systemtest 8y ago
Did you leave a comment for the guy who has to fix it in 30 years?
- pinko 8y agoHopefully there's even odds it will be a woman by then.
- systemtest 8y agoPerhaps we go full circle and have predominately female programmers by then.
- edoceo 8y agoA full circle puts us back where we started?
- mrguyorama 8y agoProgramming used to be a "woman's job" as secretaries.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoIt was soft-ware after all. Downvoters don't seem to understand this point, that was the idea in the old days. That hardware was for men.
- throwaway675309 8y agoyeah, but being a programmer had a different connotation in that sense, just like how you wouldn't call a person who xeroxed a book an "author".
- monocasa 8y agoNo, a lot of those women legitimately did what we'd call programming.
- bregma 8y agoIn the 1840s when programmable computing devices were first manufactured, 100% of programmers were women. She died about 10 years later.
- robkop 8y agoI think one Mr Charles Babbage might disagree with you on that. Also I wouldn't say that any were actually manufactured. The first fully working model of the difference engine was created in the 1990s and as far as I know there never was a working analytical engine.
- edoceo 8y agoLooks like some folks missed my point, others got it 100%. I am in favor of more diversity in software builders, I practice what I preach
- mruts 8y agoWhy? Do you also hope that there's even odds that garbage trucks are 50% staffed by women? Or maybe 50% odds that menswear models are women? Maybe it would be better if everyone made their own choices for themselves, instead of assuming that everyone wants the same thing as you.
- rchaud 8y agoBit of a strong reaction to a comment that began with the words "Hopefully"