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Were the bulk of these programmers solving problems with engineering and logical reasoning as they might today?
by 15155 5y ago
Were the bulk of these programmers solving problems with engineering and logical reasoning as they might today?
- mcguire 5y agoYes. More so.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoRevisionist history
- 908B64B197 5y agoThat doesn't align with most accounts of how computing was performed in the 50's and 60's. For instance, Knuth was seen as an anomaly because he would operate the keypunch as fast as the secretaries and would keypunch his own programs.
- mcguire 5y agoProgrammers aren't and weren't keypunch operators. Or secretaries.
- 908B64B197 5y agoNo, they would have been known as "computer operators" and still been counted in the "computer related occupations" bucket.
- mcguire 5y agoI recommend Joanna Russ' How to Suppress Women's Writing for more tips on how to deny women's presence.
- munk-a 5y agoAnd not just more so - but more so with worse tools to do it with. There are really hard problems in development these days that we all deal with - and we only deal with them because we're standing on the shoulders of giants - most of whom were women.