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• ividya - Jun 18 2008 | best, learn, map

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  Quoted: We all know men hate to ask for directions. Apparently they loathe putting directions in computer code, too. She would have been one heck of a coder Emma McGrattan, the senior vice-president of engineering for computer-database company Ingres--and one of Silicon Valley’s highest-ranking female programmers--insists that men and women write code differently. Women are more touchy-feely and considerate of those who will use the code later, she says. They’ll intersperse their code--those strings of instructions that result in nifty applications and programs--with helpful comments and directions, explaining why they wrote the lines the way they did and exactly ...
• jacoxnet - Jun 17 2008 | works, history, times

  Quoted: Emma McGrattan, the senior vice-president of engineering for computer-database company Ingres–and one of Silicon Valley’s highest-ranking female programmers–insists that men and women write code differently.

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