Re: Why are women too dumb to program a computer???

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From: Mike Schilling
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:20

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<nebulous99@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Oct 21, 2:56 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
> wrote:
>> You are aware that Grace Hopper invented COBOL.
>
> Not exactly a ringing endorsement of women in technical fields, I'm
> afraid...:)

Only if you're unaware of the state of the art pre-COBOL, and insist on 
judging it by modern standards of language design.  It's still true that 
there's far more running code written in COBOL than in any competing [1] 
language.

1. I use this somewhat imprecise term to exclude HTML.

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