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Do Women Write Better Code?
JCWDenton writes "The senior vice-president of engineering for computer-database company Ingres-and one of Silicon Valley's highest-ranking female programmers-insists that men and women write code differently. Women are more touchy-feely and considerate of those who will use the code later, she says. They'll intersperse their code ... with helpful comments and directions, explaining why they wrote the lines the way they did and exactly how they did it. The code becomes a type of 'roadmap' for others who might want to alter it or add to it later, says McGrattan, a native of Ireland who has been with Ingres since 1992. Men, on the other hand, have no such pretenses. Often, 'they try to show how clever they are by writing very cryptic code,' she tells the Business Technology Blog. 'They try to obfuscate things in the code,' and don't leave clear directions for people using it later. "
I write PERL like a man, and for a damn good reason. Have you ever tried to get written instructions from a woman? Well, since my wife wrote the instructions for everyone to get to our first few parties, I've been damned happy with how PERL is written, and proud to document my code like a man. I've seen some PERL written like her directions, but not much.
Did I tell you, I directed most people via phone, up to 30 minutes after they gave up using her written directions.
Sure, women have a different way. In my experience, that is rarely the best, most concise, most efficient way of doing something.
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That's fine, apparently the only one you've heard about is a bigot so if you treat every woman computer scientist you meet based on that assumption we'll reach a nice state of equality in the industry. :/
What a fucking bitch. Seriously. It's not even like she has a study to back it up. I hope she gets thrown off the board for sexual harassment.
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