I've heard You punch like a girl, You drive like a girl and similar before, but never You code like a girl. Which is good, I guess.
I code like a girl
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#12A good read. Although I was surprised the grandmother of programming, Ada Lovelace, wasn't mentioned.
Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer.
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#13the title is provocative, but the content is better. it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.
Not boys, not men either though, but guys. Guys and girls tends to be the informal nomenclature for men and women. Why not guys and gals? Gal sounds so antiquated yet guy does not.
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#14the title is provocative, but the content is better. it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.
Women often refer to each other as girls. Men don't usually to each other as boys.
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#15Sometimes I get a little happy - maybe even proud - when I read about the achievements of women who pioneered this field (especially the awesome Admiral Hopper.)
Then I stop smiling and remind myself that, even in praise, it's not relevant.
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#16the title is provocative, but the content is better. it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.
Not boys, not men either though, but guys. Guys and girls tends to be the informal nomenclature for men and women. Why not guys and gals? Gal sounds so antiquated yet guy does not.
I don't think of guys as gender specific any more, but I suppose it is now that you mention it.
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#17the title is provocative, but the content is better. it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.
You see it in self reference as well. I hear women talk about their girlfriends all the time, but I never hear men mention their boyfriends. It is often the guys.
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#18the title is provocative, but the content is better. it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.
Women often refer to each other as girls. Men don't usually to each other as boys.
Like, in "going out with the boys" or "my boys have my back" or "boys will be boys"?
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#19A good read. Although I was surprised the grandmother of programming, Ada Lovelace, wasn't mentioned. Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often descr…
As interesting as Ada Lovelace's and Charles Babbage's story is, their efforts have had little (if any) influence on the computer we know today. In a sense, they are not completely relevant when talking about modern computing. I also feel Lovelace tend to distract the subject on women in computing.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Women often refer to each other as girls. Men don't usually to each other as boys.
Like, in "going out with the boys" or "my boys have my back" or "boys will be boys"?
all those phrases are used by the immature referring to the immature.
those _are_ boys.