[Techtalk] Programming languages for women

[Amanda5]

Isn't "beyond me in scope" what OOP is about? That is, creating menageries 
of objects. She said grinning.

Amanda5

At 09:21 PM 3/3/2002 -0500, James wrote:
>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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
> > [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.
> > --
> >     "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
> >               you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
> >
> > jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au     http://anthill.echidna.id.au/~jenn/
> >
> >
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