gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (03/22/84)
@ Quote without comment: "Writers Workbench: Bellwether for New Product Line", Unix(tm) Review, Feb/Mar 84, pg 48: "The Writers Workbench is ... an almost completely debugged, well-documented, user-friendly set of programs that does exactly what it says it is going to do, without any unpleasant surprises. "To what can we attribute this state of grace? As an unabashed female chauvinist, I'd like to point out that a great many of the people who developed WWB were women. There has been significant involvement by men as well, including the enthusiastic, even evangelical support of Dr. Charles Smith from Colorado State University, but the predominantly female makeup of the WWB development team is worthy of remark."
archiel@hercules.UUCP (Archie Lachner) (03/26/84)
Now that the shoe is seemingly on the other foot, does it fit any better?
Let me explain. How would the author of the article in question have felt
if she had read something to the effect that a software system was superior
because no women were involved in its development? I imagine she would be
rather upset. Why does the sexual, racial, ethnic, or religious makeup of
any group of people have anything to do with the quality of what they produce?
--
Archie Lachner
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