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From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Reflections
Message-ID: <1991May14.033159.6001@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 14 May 91 03:31:59 GMT
References: <1991May10.201843.7186@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <3926@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
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In article <3926@motcsd.csd.mot.com> lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) writes:

>I've found that women seem prefer the Smalltalk paradigm over the
>procedural paradigm, when faced with learning programming.  They've
>generally been exposed to the procedural style first, and didn't enjoy
>working with it.  Once they got into Smalltalk, they enjoyed programming
>for the first time.
>My theory is that while men are generally fascinated by machinery
>and the fiddling thereof, women are generally fascinated by personal
>interaction and find machinery boring.

If this is the reason, then men should enjoy knitting and reading
cookbooks(*), while women should be bored by them.

(*  Of course some do, and I certainly believe that there should be no
legal or social or other pressure in either direction.  Only, statistical
observations contradict the proposed reasoning.)
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
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