[Techtalk] Programming languages for women

[James]

I find SQL procedural, as I can think about it and contain the idea of
what I'm doing into something rational that I can feel.  I can feel that
I have a distinct question "SELECT * FROM blah where...." and can get a
response and then do something with it (I typically use it with PHP).

On very, very large projects, especially with a lot of oo, functions,
etc, I feel like it is beyond me in scope.

- James

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> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Jenn Vesperman
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:12 PM
> To: James
> Cc: 'Amanda5'; 'jennyw'; 'TechTalk'
> Subject: RE: [Techtalk] Programming languages for women
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 13:05, James wrote:
>  
> > I find that as a guy, I'm very... Procedural.  I need to be able to 
> > see a clear set of steps.  Is this common to all programmers, just 
> > male ones or am I totally bizarre? :)
> 
> I don't think minds are inherently male/female, despite the 
> higher number of connections in the corpus callosum(sp) in 
> the female brain.
> 
> If I'm used to working in a procedural language, I then have 
> to spend some time resetting my thinking to work in SQL, 
> Prolog or Miranda. It's not a matter of what I need, it's a 
> matter of adjusting my thinking to a different tool. 
> 
> I think that's more a function of my training or my 
> individual brain-type than my gender.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jenn V.
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