Count me in. In fact, count my whole office. We're a bit lost in time, we still work in VS6, mostly C and a bit of VB. Making a GUI in C is a nightmare, but hey, what boss wants, boss gets :sigh: And it's fun, in a masochistic kind of way :mad:

Oh, I read his post, don't worry. It's just that I didn't take him that seriously. His entire post and the "womens think less" attitude sounded so immature to me that I didn't even give it a thought before I read your post. While I think it's extremely silly to say that women are not capable of thinking on the same level as men, you have to keep two things in mind: he's 28 years old, which I think is still very young, and more important, he's from Pakistan. I doubt women are much encouraged to think on their own there. It's the same thing when they say in my country (and I believe in other countries too) that people from the country side are not as smart as people from the city. As much as I hate stereotypes, I do have to agree with this one, but only in general. I'm not saying that the potential is not there, it's just that it's never been encouraged. Parents actually say to their children that school is of no use to them and all they need to know is how to plow fields and plant potatoes. Teachers there are mediocre, to say the least. The whole mentality is set against "smart" that only rare children manage to develop their true potential in atmosphere like that. But even in an atmosphere like that there are extraordinary minds. I assume that things in Pakistan are not much different than that. I really doubt that women there are brought up and encouraged to think. I 'm not saying women there are not smart, they do have the same potential as women everywhere in the world, I'm just saying that the ones that managed to grow in such a society must be rarer than in the rest of the world, and that's really sad. Or maybe they're just hiding. So if Sameers still hasn't met one, I don't think we should attack him because of that, but rather feel sorry for him :). Nevertheless, I do enjoy it when a woman puts a man it his place :D

tommieb wrote:

Women programmers rule......male programmers drool!

Now that's a signature if I ever saw one :laugh:

Though I think you've been a little too harsh, this was a most enjoyable post to read :D

Oh, I forgot to mention that the guy that sits next to me also has a girl-friend programer :)We were all at uni together :D Sorry, I can't help you, you'll have to talk to your bosses to import some :D #import "lady_developers.h" :laugh:

20 minute walk from home to work :) I find it refreshing after sitting the whole day. I would love working at home, though I would have to work on my self-discipline... But it would be usefull to be able to take a break when ever I'm tired or just feel like it, and do the job on my own time. I believe it would be more productive. But I don't think it would be possible, since I have to test most of the code on hardware :^)

Polymorpher wrote:

Wouldnt it be great to find a good woman (willing to date a programer ) who also programs? LOL not to many woman are interested in programing when you try to explain it to them! You get the old 'Yea thats cool.....'

Well, I'm a female programmer and my boy-friend is a programer as well :-D In the room next to mine there is a couple who are also both programmers I know what you mean, my ex boy-friend wasn't a programmer and it bugged me that I couldn't talk about programing with him... Not that he wouldn't wan't to listen, he just couldn't understand it :laugh: There's about 5 of us female progremmers and about 25 male programmers at my work :-).