From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <931896372snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t0Gi3.1038$J71.54999@monger.newsread.com
In article <t0Gi3.1038$J71.54999@monger.newsread.com>
scott@aravis.softbase.com "Scott McMahan" writes:
>Roedy Green (a1b84881@mail.bctel.ca) wrote:
>
>> Back in my university days, the distribution of men and women in the
>> computer field was much more equal than today. What happened? Why
>> did computers become an almost exclusively male preserve?
>
>COBOL was replaced by C.
When did that happen? Cobol still exists but much Cobol development has
been replaced to some extent by 4Gls, SQL and database systems and off the
shelf applications. Perhaps the probleem is that the type of application
being developed has changed.
>A perfectly understandable language based on
>English that allowed you to tell the computer what to do was replaced
>by a language that looked like modem line noise.
It doesn't have to look like that. There are other language too, this
is being cross-posted to Ada and Delphi newsgroups.
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Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby [this message]
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