I have met many wonderful highly intelligent female programmers in my software career spanning more than 30 years, covering mainly technical software using Assembler and "C".
I have noted, that most woman are better communicators than man- and most will strive best in mixded software teams- which have a great social coherence and offer some social interactions beyond the realms of the screen.
Man on the other hand, are quite happy to work allone, for hours on end to debug some code (all through the gray hours if needed), a skill which can be very helpful of "New Land" has to be discovered in the Open Source arena. You have to be very determined to succeed in the ardent Open Source field, without any social interaction, and the lonelyness which often goes with it.
In principle both man and woman have the same abilities, but we are all conditionend by our upbringing.
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I have met many wonderful highly intelligent female programmers in my software career spanning more than 30 years, covering mainly technical software using Assembler and "C". I have noted, that most woman are better communicators than man- and most will strive best in mixded software teams- which have a great social coherence and offer some social interactions beyond the realms of the screen. Man on the other hand, are quite happy to work allone, for hours on end to debug some code (all through the gray hours if needed), a skill which can be very helpful of "New Land" has to be discovered in the Open Source arena. You have to be very determined to succeed in the ardent Open Source field, without any social interaction, and the lonelyness which often goes with it. In principle both man and woman have the same abilities, but we are all conditionend by our upbringing.