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Writing code is an act of communication. Your code must communicate clearly to the compiler. If you're really a rock-star coder, your code should communicate
by coolnewtoy 17y ago
Writing code is an act of communication. Your code must communicate clearly to the compiler. If you're really a rock-star coder, your code should communicate clearly to the next coder who comes along and has to maintain it.
- axod 17y agoThat's an exact thing though. It's instructions. Map reading. It's not the same thing... Perhaps one of the reasons that there are more male coders is the same reason that in general men are better at map reading than women. Once you start stating things like this though you run the risk of people getting offended. The fact is though, men and women are very different creatures, often suited to very different jobs.
- cjbos 17y agoAnecdotal evidence at best. If anything map reading is akin to being able to spot a pattern (Where am I on this squiggle of contour lines). Woman are historically great at weaving and producing patterns, reading instructions is just like following a recipe. A male (Charles Babbage) came up with the computer but a female (Ada Lovelace) came up with how to communicate with it. Men and Women are not so different at all.
- axod 17y agohttp://www.cerebromente.org.br/n11/mente/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n11/mente/eisntein/cerebro-ho... There are several such results... >> "One of the most interesting differences appear in the way men and women estimate time, judge speed of things, carry out mental mathematical calculations, orient in space and visualize objects in three dimensions, etc. In all these tasks, women and men are strikingly different, as they are too in the way their brains process language."