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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 19:32:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-08, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 14:35:48 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>On 08/04/2024 09:47, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:04:16 -0400
>>> Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>> If acknowledging the existence of female developers makes you
>>>> uncomfortable, you're just going to have to learn to deal with that
>>>> yourself.  I'm not going to adjust my language to cater to your
>>>> insecurities.
>>> 
>>> If my insecurities you mean acknowledging reality then fine. The thing about
>>> people like you is (and I don't believe the 50% thing, sorry) is that you
>>> would never use a male pronoun if talking about nurses or pre school teachers
>>
>>> who are heavily biased towards women.
>>> 
>>
>>What makes you so sure about that?  Are you assuming that because /you/ 
>>are sexist, everyone else is?
>
> An immediate fallacious ad hominem no doubt in order to prop up whatever
> straw men follow. 

You wrote, "people like you ... would never use a male pronoun if
talking about nurses", written by you, is already ad hominem;
it's a direct accusation of hypocrisy, rather than focusing on the
argument content.

If you can't handle the ad-hominem ball returned to your court,
don't serve it!

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