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Re:E Pur Si Muove by ghshephard on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:50PM (#15928856)
Nitpicking here, but your example was somewhat ironic, as 50 years ago, Computer were predominantly programmed by women [1] , so the heretical idea would have been to say that men should be programming computers.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...

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Re:E Pur Si Muove by erik_seaberg on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:02PM (#15934590)
"Programmer" was a data entry job that we automated away. They were basically compiling flowcharts that were written by "systems analysts" doing the work we would call programming.

It's like an "EPROM programmer", which is a tool to make the hardware run the software.

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