[olug] OT Geek women (Was: OT: After installfest)

[Jonathan Warren]

ada huh?  Strange coincidence or government conspiracy?  Ada is a strange language.  I always wondered where its name came from.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, David Walker wrote:
> No discussion of geek women would be complete without mentioning Ada Byron 
> Lovelace, the first computer programmer.
> http://www.aimsedu.org/Math_History/Samples/ADA/Ada.html
> 
> On Monday 15 July 2002 02:34 pm, Daniel Pfile wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 13:39, Tanya Loughead wrote:
> > > Tsk, Tsk tsk... (that's me shaking my head in feminist disapproval) ;-)
> > >
> > > I am surprised that bright, scientific minded guys such as yourselves
> > > would make broad sweeping generalizations about women based on one or
> > > two empirical studies.
> > > Perhaps next time you boy-geeks go to the Crescent Moon for a few beers,
> > > you'll need a girl-geek to go along with you to set you on the
> > > right-minded path. heh heh
> >
> > Whoa.. my ring comment was a joke, not gospel. I was playing off the
> > sienfeld (was it?) episode where george tried the ring thing and had it
> > backfire on him. I was shocked to come back from doing laundry (yes, men
> > do that..) and see the huge flame fest going on in my inbox... My bad.
> >
> > Anyway, how about we shift the topic more towards women in the geek
> > community and computer workplace rather than some warped war of the
> > sexes. I've personally met two geek women in the past couple days, which
> > I think is a record. I always wondered more women don't go into the
> > engineering fields, you'd think the lack of testosterone would make them
> > less like to go off and do something pointless instead of creating a
> > better solution in the end. Of course, that's probably offset by the
> > need to 'prove themselves' in the old boys club.
> >
> > Anyway, talk amongst yourselves if you wish.
> >
> > BTW, why didn't you (Tanya) and other people go out with us afterwards
> > to cresent?
> 
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