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Jan 11, 2006 3:51:07 GMT
Post by Muppet Eater on Jan 11, 2006 3:51:07 GMT
Are there any female coders out there? I don't personally know any. A lot of my guy friends are coders, but none of my girl friends.
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Jan 11, 2006 22:55:49 GMT
Post by earlofqb on Jan 11, 2006 22:55:49 GMT
I personally know of none, however there is a semi-famous addage in the programming world that female programmers are the best. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown (and to not offend anyone, I won't speculate either), female forms seem to have little interest in science-based careers. In fact many governments have adopted a sort of status quo idea where minorities are favored over majority in workplace and other areas (I forget what it's actually called. It is a legal and supposedly ethical choice employers use (and are sometimes forced to use)). You should try to interest them in it (without making it seem as though you're making a pass at her. I was there and it wasn't spiffy. Lost both my human friend-g (fancy talk for girlfriend. I was bored one day and read about this guy who is writing his own secret language. You can read some of it from here in the entry entitled "Earl's Dictionary") (who thought I was cheating) and a good friend (who also thought I was cheating and of whom wasn't interested) (for another's information, they were separate people, doubly increasing the sadness). So, if you try to get female forms to program, make sure that your intents are known first
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Jan 24, 2006 6:20:27 GMT
Post by Mikrondel on Jan 24, 2006 6:20:27 GMT
I know of but one. Her handle on www.network54.com/Forum/13959/ is "Solitaire". She's a programming teacher. P.S. as the best programmer in the world, I think I contradict the "females are the best" thing. Ok, I'm kidding. But Solitaire has called me a genius for a program I once wrote.
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Jan 24, 2006 22:49:25 GMT
Post by earlofqb on Jan 24, 2006 22:49:25 GMT
You might be the best programmer here, but Mr. H. (remember about a month back I spoke of a programmer I know of who burned out of programming? He spent roughly 30 hours a week (of his own time) programming, and just got tired of it. He made an entire MUD from scratch, but after getting completely tired of programming, threw the entire folder in the "garbage"; destroying years of work. An utter shame, if you ask me), is the best programmer in the world . Also, why, in my last post, did I feel the need to point out they were two separate people? "Like a Canadian said: Someday, perhaps 5 years from now, you'll remember all that you did and regret every minute of it. This is one of those moments you'll regret". Finally, you are a genius; at least you are so long as you aren't surrounded by the people I am (I'm not really putting them down. Its just that after you're called "genius" daily, it gets pretty condescending), who call you genius because you find a different way to interpret something (so I [Censored] up when making my schedule and scheduled a class designed for people who sleep through school. It does prove a reasonable break in the day (advanced calculus, engineering, then sleep through english (the poorly-scheduled class) and study hall)) (case in point, TS Eliot's "The Wanderer (or something like that)". Everyone interpreted it as some guy walking around after some doomsday scenario come to fruition. I interpreted it as not only after doomsday, but as after the Rapture, and applied its symbolism to the idea that for all we try, we can't be forgiven. We're given one chance in this life and that's it. Admitantly, that interpretation was weak, but I was given extra credit for it because it applied symbolism!).
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Jan 24, 2006 23:49:16 GMT
Post by Ildûrest on Jan 24, 2006 23:49:16 GMT
I had a look at EL... interesting. I'm thinking of developing some languages. I've already made a cool script that's theoretically rather efficient and easy to learn. Maybe I'll make an introduction page to it somewhere. It's extremely reductionist. But more on that later, I have to go.
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Jan 27, 2006 1:59:57 GMT
Post by earlofqb on Jan 27, 2006 1:59:57 GMT
EL is like Spanish, not C++. Its a language you speak, not program.
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Jan 27, 2006 2:46:47 GMT
Post by Ildûrest on Jan 27, 2006 2:46:47 GMT
WHAT??? LOL
No, I mean the same thing as you do. Spoken languages. Sorry for confusion.
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Jan 28, 2006 2:07:09 GMT
Post by earlofqb on Jan 28, 2006 2:07:09 GMT
Oh! I see it now. I thought you meant "script" like a programming script, not a theatrical script. I apologize.
EL is pretty unforgiving, which is why its still in extreme alpha phase. As far as I know, only 5 people know it, and its pretty impossible to speak it unless you've a good half hour per phrase to translate the near infinate meanings of it. It'll have to be modified to a more vocabulary-filled language (although the original intent of it was to cut down on vocabulary in a language. It was based off the programming idea that you can do almost anything with only a series of a hundred or so keywords. Obviously, spoken language can't work that way (don't know why it was attempted either)).
I look forward to seeing some of your work, it intrigues me.
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Jan 28, 2006 23:33:44 GMT
Post by Ildûrest on Jan 28, 2006 23:33:44 GMT
No, I don't mean a theatrical script, I mean a method of writing.
It's not an alphabet as such, but you might call it that.
I'm not going to discuss it more in this thread. Make a new thread about languages, or else when I get a description of this thing done, I'll start a thread.
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Jan 31, 2006 2:08:43 GMT
Post by earlofqb on Jan 31, 2006 2:08:43 GMT
So, its sort of like what Dr. ERE created, except different. As far as I know, the alphabet for EL is the same as standard English, the pronunciation is in the Latin style (ie a = ah, e = ay, i = e, o = oh, u = oooh). The writing style is in the English style (ex, the old standby "te countnance be agreeable" = "your face is nice". "halle munde" = "hello world", "this preocupe me psychic" = "this confuses me (mind)". Is that something like what you're talking about? Translating from a "standard" language into a self-created one. Ie what my teachers call "an extreme extrapolation of slang" (don't speak your own language in front of them and not expect them to catch on after a while. Fortunately, they never translated my little curses into what they were ). I'm sure you'll be able to explain it in your own time (I'm extremely intrigued by it).
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