help!!!

[Robert Kern]

On 10/11/10 6:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:11:37 -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger
>>> <usenot at geekmail.invalid>  wrote:
>>>
>>>      On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>>      <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>  wrote:
>>>
>>>       >  In message<mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>>>      <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>>,
>>>       >  Emile van Sebille wrote:
>>>       >
>>>       >  >  Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's
>>>       >  >  attribute?
>>>       >
>>>       >  I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women...
>>>
>>>      You may want to think about whether this really was your intended
>>>      meaning.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; explains
>>> why programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least).
>>> Made perfect sense to me.
>>
>> That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than
>> women".
>
> But that's not what he said. He said more men are good at programming
> than women.

I suck at reading, apparently.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco