help!!!

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 11:11:37 EDT 2010


On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger <usenot at geekmail.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>     <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>      > In message <mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>     <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>>,
>      > Emile van Sebille wrote:
>      >
>      > > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's attribute?
>      >
>      > I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women...
>
>     You may want to think about whether this really was your intended
>     meaning.
>
>
> Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; explains why
> programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least).  Made perfect
> sense to me.

That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than women".

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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