Re: Looking for women? - Something wrong with the numbers?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:59:59 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>
> To: "Anne [ISO-8859-1] Østergaard" <anne oestergaard nu>
> Cc: foundation-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Looking for women? -  Something wrong with the numbers?
>
>     Up till now it has been men_defining what it hot and what is not_.
>     Writing good code is very high ranking. Doing documentation,
>     translation, bug fixing and writing manuals is lower on the staircase to
>     software heaven and stardom.
>
> I've been saying for years that we need more good writers of manuals
> much more than we need more good programmers.

If more good programmers were forced to write documentation they'd see the
value of making their software more user friendly so that less
documentation was needed :)

- Alan H.