>>>> Does anybody *else* find it ironic that the world's first programmer was 
>>>> a women??
>>> Noo. Why should it be ironic or even mentionable?
>> Because today all programmers are male? (Indeed, all people remotely 
>> connected with computer technology are male.)
> 
> You are just plain wrong, Andrew. Maybe thirty years ago your statement would
> have been truer. On my present project about 25% of the functional and technical
> people are female. That is not counting administrative staff or business
> representatives. 

Well let me see now. At college, there were 0 girls in the class. At 
uni, there was 80 males and 3 females. And most of them went into 
service or support. All of the programming lectures had 0 females. As 
far as I can tell, the entire Haskell mailing list has 1 female on it, 
and several dozen males. Need I continue?

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