Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> 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.)
>
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Where I work we have a staff of about 65 programmers, 20 of whom are female.
So while computer technology is predominatly male, there are significant numbers
of females involved.  In another post I mentioned that a few programmers caused
me a lot of agravation.  None of them are female.

Isaac

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