On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid>
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org
<mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org>>,
> Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
> > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's attribute?
>
> I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women...
You may want to think about whether this really was your intended
meaning.
Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; explains why
programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least). Made perfect
sense to me.
That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than women".
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Robert Kern
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that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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