Ramblings of Narc

I was pointed at this post explaining the REST architecture from, uh… somewhere. I think I may have found it on joel.reddit.com, but I’m not 100% sure.

Anyway, so I read the article, found it absolutely wonderful at explaining REST, and then moved on to the comments. I was honestly surprised at these accusations of sexism. And I don’t even understand for what — the choice of words? He stated from the start that he was talking to his wife. It was my assumption that he didn’t want to put her name out there for everyone to read, so he stuck to the “Wife” noun in describing her throughout the article. I don’t see how any of that was sexist in any way. Would it have sounded better if a homosexual man was explaining things to his boyfriend and used “Boyfriend:” throughout the article? Is there really a difference?

Um, right. Kinda got side-tracked there. The point was, I ended up reading the comments… and comment #152 had this (among other things) to say:

Programming is done sitting in a room in an illegal state of mind for long periods of time thinking about things that would make a math teacher scream

And I realized… yeah, that’s pretty much what it is. Good explanation. Is that why there are so few women programmers? Because programming is not a social experience? Probably. Is that a sexist statement? Maybe. Does it have anything at all to do with the article? Not really. But it is an interesting insight.