FSF->beards(); FSF->female_participants();
Kim Bruning (seperate for lists)
kim2 at bruning.demon.nl
Thu May 10 11:43:50 UTC 2001
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?
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