[Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:54:14 EDT, Arthur writes:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
>> Behalf Of John Zelle
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>> I speak to women all the time, and when I ask them why they're not in
>> CS, they tell me it's because they don't like computers. I've never eve
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>> had one tell me they didn't find computers or computer progams useful.
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>Seems to me that the analogies with "car culture" are too close to ignore
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>Women drive cars to pretty much the same extent as men but few care much
>about the operating system.
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>How many megahertz do you got under the hood of that baby? 
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>What's your baud?
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>It was a great day for me when I went from 1400 to 2800.
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>Not a joy I could share with my wife.
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>The question is are these phenomenon related by having the same parent
>class, or is computer culture - for whatever reason - something that
>subclassed directly from car culture. 
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>Art
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It is about control.  Women are trained to be controlled and
to shun all activity that gives them more direct control.
Indirect control -- manipulating others -- is possibly ok, but
all the rest is dangerous selfishness.

Laura  - who also helped make the fastest MG in Toronto-area
         proven in our local race track by helping to 'stack'
         the exhaust system.  Designing that was cool.   Power is
         cool.   But very unfeminine.