void FSF::beards() {
Some people here have been making remarks about bearded programmers. I just want to point out that *hey* I resemble that remark! I feel somewhat discriminated now. ;-)
If it weren't for a certain bearded programmer, there would *be* no FSF in the first place. :-P }
void FSF::female_participants() {
As to the female programmer bit:
I would like to point out that the worlds very first hacker was Ada Byron(Lady Lovelace). She *invented* programming.
Another important person was Grace Hopper. She did stuff to make COBOL possible. However, since it's still used today, she must have done something right.
I also somehow seem to remember that originally most programmers were female (and the engineers building the machines were male), but that could just be a hallucination on my part.
In any case, this does seem to indicate that woman should definately be able to programme. I would think that this should be *especially* true in the case of Free Software, where intuition, communication, and social skills are very important.
So why aren't there more female free software programmers? }
read you soon, K. Bruning.
Nice code, but why all those commas and brackets?