[Techtalk] Programming languages for women

[Amanda5]

At 01:11 PM 3/4/2002 +1100, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
>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.


I too believe its more an issue of training.  I'm not sure about brain-types.
Its certainly not about gender.

Amanda5