Do women code with a heart?
What a question. Is there actually a chance that women, rather than men, code to “help” the next person that works on the same project? According to the Wall Street Journal that chance does exist, and women continually create better commented programs than men.
According to Emma McGrattan, senior VP of Ingres over in Silicon Valley,
Men, on the other hand, have no such pretenses. Often, “they try to show how clever they are by writing very cryptic code,” she tells the Business Technology Blog. “They try to obfuscate things in the code,” and don’t leave clear directions for people using it later. McGrattan boasts that 70% to 80% of the time, she can look at a chunk of computer code and tell if it was written by a man or a woman.
Ughh.. what? Men obfuscate code on purpose to look cryptic? Not only does that make zero sense, it is incredibly prejudiced. Nobody in their right mind creates cryptic code - which, conveniently, is usually impossible to decrypt in a year by the same person. Rather than making this a gender debate, Ms. McGrattan should have just presented what she believes the ideal coding semantics are to inculcate bad programmers.
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