Non-mobile link, if anyone cares: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-sch

Non-mobile link, if anyone cares: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/femin... It's been discussed and linked around here many times, eg, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893756 My view, for what its worth, is that she's asking good and valuable questions. We do have different programming paradigms, and those paradigms do shape how we solve problems, and even what problems we can solve, and it is very possible that a different viewpoint could stumble on a very different paradigm. There's a long history of outsiders making valuable contributions to programming and computer science. ...that being said, I rather doubt she's going to get far. The odds of someone doing a bit of research and coming up with something like functional programming or lambda calculus (which as I understand it is more or less what she wants to do) is effectively nil, no matter who you are. But I wish her the best of luck.