Nerd Humor
Sep. 14th, 2011 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalToday I was toying with the idea of teaching myself Objective-C. I used to know C++ better than English, but I've been out of practice. How much harder could it be for me to learn Objective-C?
Anyway, I was reading discussion today regarding the two different programming languages and this made me laugh:
Male Programmer: Oh come on, we all know the vast majority of programmers are males.
The author is clearly trying to get a message across.
If I was writing an article about construction, I would use "he"; if I were writing about shopping, I'd use "she".
Female Programmer: Really? That's news to me. At every company I have ever worked, female developers have slightly outnumbered male developers. The ratio is roughly 1:1. I think you may be using an out-of-date version of reality. Try fetching the latest version from your distro's repos. I'm pretty sure sexism was deprecated in the '60s.
Okay, so maybe it's programming humor, but I cracked up. I want to make "out-of-date version of reality" my new phrase. Not as catchy as "french the llama" but it might make it.
Anyway, I was reading discussion today regarding the two different programming languages and this made me laugh:
Male Programmer: Oh come on, we all know the vast majority of programmers are males.
The author is clearly trying to get a message across.
If I was writing an article about construction, I would use "he"; if I were writing about shopping, I'd use "she".
Female Programmer: Really? That's news to me. At every company I have ever worked, female developers have slightly outnumbered male developers. The ratio is roughly 1:1. I think you may be using an out-of-date version of reality. Try fetching the latest version from your distro's repos. I'm pretty sure sexism was deprecated in the '60s.
Okay, so maybe it's programming humor, but I cracked up. I want to make "out-of-date version of reality" my new phrase. Not as catchy as "french the llama" but it might make it.
