So many programmers are men. So many. It’s positively ridiculous!

…but why? I recently proposed that the future of programming languages lay with the development of a language which is closer to modeling human thought patterns than the patterns of the computations that actually take place. That is, integer math should be less important than string manipulation, for a start.

Of course, human thought is so random, so hard to pin down. Besides, some people think better with math than with language; some think better with pictures. How will we know when a language has successfully modeled the essential patterns of human thought?

When we start to get more women programmers…