Re: Effect of Gender in Learning Ada - OT

[tmoran@acm.org]

Sheesh, to some people *all* questions must be political.
I really, really, doubt that Bob Leif was planning to propose gender, hair
color, or any consideration other than ability, for hiring programmers.
The question was whether there is any data available on the average grades
people get in programming class, as a function of gender and language.
Such averages would not be very useful in a single hiring decision, but it
might, or might not, turn out to be helpful for language advocacy (and
perhaps for language design).
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Observation trumps belief.