'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
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'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
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Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#2I've been in this business a long time and have yet to meet any women who write code.
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#3I've been in this business a long time and have yet to meet any women who write code.
Upmodded for the the humor that is almost true.
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#4I assume this is a parody, and as such, it is very well done.
If not, I can only assume that women has never met Steve Yegge.
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#5I assume this is a parody, and as such, it is very well done. If not, I can only assume that women has never met Steve Yegge.
It is not a parody. If you follow the link to the original article, you can see that she is just claiming that women are better at documenting code, which is a reasonable hypothesis. The Inquirer on their own account added the slant about womens code being more "sensitive" and so on, probably to make here look like an idiot. (Also fun to see how "user-friendly and gender-neutral" coding standards in WSJ becomes "womanish" coding standards in the Inquirer :-)
Sine there are far fewer women programmers, I would expect the average female programmer to be better than the average male - including being better at documenting code.
However the article sounds like she is only basing it on anecdotal evidence. It would be quite interesting to see a more scientific study.
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#6And men write more code, period.
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#7I've been in this business a long time and have yet to meet any women who write code.
I've hired several. Maybe I just got all of them?
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#8I assume this is a parody, and as such, it is very well done. If not, I can only assume that women has never met Steve Yegge.
It is not a parody. If you follow the link to the original article, you can see that she is just claiming that women are better at documenting code, which is a reasonable hypothesis. The Inquirer on their own account added the slant about womens code being more "sensitive" and so on, probably to make here look like an idiot. (Also fun to see how "user-friendly and gender-neutral" coding standards in WSJ becomes "woma…
Explain the statistical reasoning behind "since there are fewer, you expect them to be better".
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not a parody. If you follow the link to the original article, you can see that she is just claiming that women are better at documenting code, which is a reasonable hypothesis. The Inquirer on their own account added the slant about womens code being more "sensitive" and so on, probably to make here look like an idiot. (Also fun to see how "user-friendly and gender-neutral" coding standards in WSJ becomes "woma…
Explain the statistical reasoning behind "since there are fewer, you expect them to be better".
My reasoning is: because of male dominance and stereotypes in IT, women will think twice about entering the field. Therefore the ones who choose it, will be more passionate and determined than the average male colleague.
It is just my theory, I have never seen any statistical evidence one way or the other.
Re: 'Women write more expressive, sensitive code'
#10I've been in this business a long time and have yet to meet any women who write code.
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.