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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b5dede40c8d97f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-13 06:21:56 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 09:19:13 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: Marketing Ada Date: 1994-12-13T09:19:13-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: Marketing Ada Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC Michael Feldman writes: > >If anyone in net-land is a systers member, you might ask that >group to describe their perceptions of Ada, as a teaching language, >and in general. The results would, I think, be very interesting. > Don't you think that there is a _slight_ possibility that the individuals subscribing to a newsgroup called "systers" might just be ever so slightly biased towards a particular agenda and are, at best, a self-selected group and are thus guaranteed not to be a random sampling of women in computer science? Is it at all possible that some individuals in such a group might be out there looking for "sexism" or "male domination" in almost _anything_? Mike, I'll say it again. It is a *BIG* mistake trying to interject a notion that computer languages can be "sexist" or in any way give credibility to a misperception that C or any language is part of a "Macho" culture. It will only politicize something which ought not be a political issue. I'm not against depicting women as users of Ada in an interest of broadening the audience. But let's not turn computer languages into another battleground of "sexism" by even entertaining the thought that it could or should be. Pax, Marin Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "Nobody shot me." -- Last words of Frank Gusenberg when asked by police who shot him fourteen times with a machine gun in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. ===============================================================================