Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 2024-04-08, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 14:35:48 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 08/04/2024 09:47, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:04:16 -0400
Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

If acknowledging the existence of female developers makes you
uncomfortable, you're just going to have to learn to deal with that
yourself.  I'm not going to adjust my language to cater to your
insecurities.

 
If my insecurities you mean acknowledging reality then fine. The thing about
people like you is (and I don't believe the 50% thing, sorry) is that you
would never use a male pronoun if talking about nurses or pre school teachers

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who are heavily biased towards women.
 

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What makes you so sure about that?  Are you assuming that because /you/
are sexist, everyone else is?

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An immediate fallacious ad hominem no doubt in order to prop up whatever
straw men follow.

You wrote, "people like you ... would never use a male pronoun if
talking about nurses", written by you, is already ad hominem;
it's a direct accusation of hypocrisy, rather than focusing on the
argument content.

If you can't handle the ad-hominem ball returned to your court,
don't serve it!

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