If people will forgive my earlier joke, I have a more serious critique: While feminist theory may have a contribution to make, it's not at the level the author

If people will forgive my earlier joke, I have a more serious critique: While feminist theory may have a contribution to make, it's not at the level the author is talking about. The author refers to core language paradigms: functional, object oriented, and so on. But these are hard engineering trade offs, not malleable social theories. Language designers will continue to actively explore the design space, and they may look to many sources for inspiration, including feminism, but that's a long way from being able to say, "This programming language has a core feminist paradigm." I think, if feminist theory has a place in programming language design, it's in the human aspects. The user interface, the surface syntax, and so on.