• tiredOfFascists@reddthat.com
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      So you learned enough about the history of computing to make claims like this, but not enough to know that practically all the first programmers were female and some even pioneered theory, techniques, and languages? For example Grace Hopper, who you are erasing from history here.

      I call bullshit. Either you purposely ignore these facts, or your sexism prevented them from being remembered when you learned them.

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      Grace Hopper literally invented the first software compiler.

      If you dismiss software engineering as a form of engineering, then you have no qualifications to be an engineer and no business even commenting.

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          The original post didn’t say the word ‘majority’. I did not say the word ‘majority’. Hell, you didn’t even say the word ‘majority’, until that last comment I’m responding to anyways.

          You said the word ‘backbone’. Well, when you think about it, aren’t compilers like the backbone of software engineering?

          You’re not gonna get very far writing your new fancy game by manually flipping all the bits one by one with a panel of switches, you need a compiler.

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          Why do you think the human computers weren’t the majority of people creating the first electronic computers?

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      Yeah very true, and credit where credit is due. The majority of “computers”, when that was a job title, were women who were very good at running quick calculations.