Women may write better code, study finds

Women may write better code, study finds

Computer code written by women has a higher approval rating than that written by men - but only if their gender is not identifiable, new research suggests.

The US researchers analysed nearly 1.4 million users of the open source program-sharing service Github.
They found that pull requests - or suggested code changes - made on the service by women were more likely to be accepted than those by men.

Source BBC News

 

Unfair, Women invented both high level languages, and compilers. The game's rigged!

 

I for one welcome our new Coding Overladies.

 

I know this is a serious subject and not to make light of it or anything, but I thought the film "Lovelace" was about Ada Lovelace, one of the pioneers of computing, if not indeed the founding mother of software (as mentioned in that BBC article).

Suffice to say, the film didn't pan out the way I expected.

 

Why is this in the public area?

Is this Anita trolling for a public discussion or something...

 

Maybe they just wrote better descriptions of what their code did rather than terse cryptic code...

 

Further news: Men try to think up alternative explanation.

 

"I-Interesting angle they've taken. Well... She was Lord Byon's daughter I suppose. I'll give it another half an hour but then I'm definitely storming out."

 

This isn't the forum for trolling and trollbait?

 

That is unfair.