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The Wall Street Journal quotes a senior vice-president of databasecompany Ingres, a woman by the name of Emma McGrattan, as saying that women aregenerally more considerate programmers.
McGrattan, purportedly one of the top ranking female programmers in the US,reckons that whereas men feel absolutely no compunction whatsoever to explainwhat they are doing, female programmers like to leave detailed and wafflyaccounts of precisely what they did, why they did it, and how they think thingsshould proceed.
McGrattan berates men for trying, “to show how clever they are by writingvery cryptic code,” whereas women just want to be understood.
The superwoman of code has even imposed new womanish coding standards at hercompany, Ingres, forcing men to write more detailed accounts of their codingissues, and expressing their programming problems before each new block of codeis written. Lovingly written.
Of course, it would help if more women were actually interested in computerprogramming in the first place, but the fairer, and more articulate sex, arestill a minority in the male dominated industry.
“It’s proving very challenging,” admits McGrattan, who will apparently haveto put up with grunty, monosyllabic male code for a fair few more years to come.µ