'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'

Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by peanutcruncher on Monday June 09, 2008 @11:43AM (#212846)

I've been in this business a long time and have yet to meet any women who write code.

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by alex_c on Monday June 09, 2008 @12:36PM (#212890)

I haven't been in this business that long, but I have met women who write code.

Conclusion: we live in parallel universes. That, or single points of data aren't all that useful to a discussion.

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by tptacek on Monday June 09, 2008 @12:17PM (#212874)

I've hired several. Maybe I just got all of them?

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by omarseyal on Monday June 09, 2008 @12:38PM (#212893)

I've been in this "business" for a short time, and I've met several. Which goes to show you, your personal experience is generally a bad foundation for making sweeping generalizations.

I just consider dev-shops that are female dominated to be Black Swans. They haven't happened, and they are unlikely to exist right now, but they certainly could have occurred if some social factors were different, and they certainly might in the future...

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by dhs on Monday June 09, 2008 @12:44PM (#212901)

Ever heard of Grace Murray Hopper?

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by ovi256 on Monday June 09, 2008 @05:25PM (#213233)

Please prefix her name with Rear Admiral, per proper usage.

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Re:'Women write more expressive, sensitive code' by brentr on Monday June 09, 2008 @11:46AM (#212849)

Upmodded for the the humor that is almost true.

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