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How uninviting our industry must be to women when our term for someone that's been in it a long time is greybeard
by furyofantares 4y ago
How uninviting our industry must be to women when our term for someone that's been in it a long time is greybeard
- stillkicking 4y ago
- samatman 4y agoDid you mean besides COBOL? There's CLU. Speaking of which, get one.
- phailhaus 4y agoYikes. What's your argument here even? "Therefore, women don't exist"?
- hnaccount141 4y agoTop 20 language is an, uh, interestingly narrow request. Is being the first computer programmer ever[0] not enough impact? In programming languages there's of course Grace Hopper, one of the early advocates for machine independent languages, who implemented the first linker[1], and also created FLOW-MATIC[2], the first english-like data processing language. FLOW-MATIC was was a major inspiration for COBOL which, incidentally, was partially developed by Jean Sammet, also a woman. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_construction#First_compilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_constructi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC
- khazhoux 4y agoThe only place I ever hear this term is in the every-3-months thread on Hacker News like this one. IRL I never hear it.
- furyofantares 4y agoSame. So maybe not the industry then, but HN text threads