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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: <931896372snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500653596 X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!genesis.demon.co.uk References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <7m4dut$r3i$1@news.cybercity.dk> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 931898084 mail2news:2014 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: none Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article 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. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------