From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ef0b1ff7be6dd43 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-27 05:38:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!213.253.16.105.MISMATCH!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!iapetus.uk.clara.net Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:38:47 +0100 From: Robin KAY Organization: www.gekkou.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030329 X-Accept-Language: en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Effect of Gender in Learning Ada - OT References: <1051400505.19347.0@iapetus.uk.clara.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net (please include full headers) X-Trace: 60732a605c466f69d85842784973134087527b170c754720d0b620603eabcf57 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:38:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1051447127.38898.0@iapetus.uk.clara.net> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36643 Date: 2003-04-27T13:38:47+01:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > I really, really, doubt that Bob Leif was planning to propose gender, hair > color, or any consideration other than ability, for hiring programmers. I wasn't replying to Robert (Bob?) Leif's original question but rather to Frode's suggestion that government enforcement/encouragement of even numerical parity between the sexes would increase the quality of software in safety critical applications. -- Wishing you good fortune, --Robin Kay-- (komadori)