How to be a Programmer

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 29, 2003 @07:38AM from the learning-to-like-mountain-dew-and-pizza dept.

Martin L. Smith writes "Rob Read has posted his magnum opus, "How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive and Personal Summary" to Samizdat Press where it can be scarfed by the masses. Rob's book is a forty-page tour through the million-and-one things he thinks a programmer ought to know as he sets out into deep water. One of the reasons he posted this was to get some feedback, so tell him what you think. Samizdat Press is maintained by the Colorado School of Mines to provide a distribution point for free (mostly earth-sciences related) texts."

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Male writer using "she" by Gary · 2003-01-29 08:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ok, I started reading the paper and got to the intro where HE starts using SHE for a pronoun. That's it, I refuse to read the rest. Gawd that annoys me! If a woman writes, by all means use "she", but it smacks of political correctness, IMHO, when a man does it.

I know, I am too easily annoyed.