Ahh ty. I completely missed the NASA parallel Bill was drawing. Regards, KAM
On August 11, 2017 8:47:10 PM EDT, jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 08/11/2017 02:09 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > >> FWIW, a computer (computationalist) was a stereotype that there were >> many smart people who could not engineer, but could perform >> calculations. I don't think you want to go there. > >Computationalist was/is a far more appropriate term, than what those >individuals would otherwise have been called (^1). Depending upon >whose >research you believe, the first group was either exclusively black >females, or white females. Either the second or third group was >exclusively females of the race that the first group was not. > >I wouldn't be at all surprised to find "Code like a girl" used as an >epithet with those women. > >^1: One major issue is that the work they did was, and, to a degree, >remains classified. For employment purposes a term was needed that was >sufficiently vague that only those who did the job, and their immediate >supervisors had a general idea of what they did, but specific enough, >so >that outsiders would know that their job was not-x, where "x" could be >anything, including their specific job function. > >jonathon > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
