It's hard to miss the fact that there is a lot of animosity in mailing list environments... some of it accidental, but nevertheless real. It's not only females that find such an approach distasteful (FULL DISCLOSURE: I have also been guilty of such an approach).
People who need information can get over that, however. What is most lacking, in my mind, is a more wholistic approach to dataflow programming, one that looks at aesthetic issues
ie. what contradictions arise when expressing the irrational via the rational???
another one: how can coding practices take into account the body??? not just the performer's body, but the coder/programmer's body. and does it make any difference???
~David
On 9/28/07, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Well, one difference that I have noticed in my years is that men are much less supportive and enabling in communities than women, and men tend to be more confrontational.
If women are that more supportive and enabling, then by all means they should invade pd-list. And I don't mean just lurking...
If confrontation is necessary for people to test their new ideas, then by all means women should be more confrontational (of that kind of confrontation, of course...).
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