On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:04:28 -0500 Jorge Biquez <jbiq...@icsmx.com> wrote:
> At 06:30 p.m. 11/10/2010, Robert Kern wrote: > >On 10/11/10 6:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:11:37 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > >> > >>>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". > >> > >>But that's not what he said. He said more men are good at > >>programming than women. > > > >I suck at reading, apparently. > > > > [snip] > > > I was a teacher of Computer Sciences for some > years.... in my case, women were better > programming than men..... but sure, on the IT > industry the percentage of men is a lot more than the one of women. > Why? > Remarks like the above are probably not helping. /W -- To reach me via email, replace INVALID with the country code of my home country. But if you spam me, I'll be one sour Kraut. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
