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Written by ultrageranium on 2024-10-25 at 21:36

A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design (2024)

Felienne Hermans, Ari Schlesinger

"Two critical and interrelated questions regarding the design and study of programming languages are: 1) What does it mean to design a programming language? and 2) Why does minimal demographic diversity persist in the programming language community? In this paper, we present feminism as a philosophical lens for analyzing the programming languages field in order to help us understand and answer the motivating questions above. By using a feminist lens, we are able to explore how the dominant intellectual and cultural norms have both shaped and constrained programming languages."

https://www.felienne.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feminism_in_Programming_Language_Design_CR_5-1.pdf

[#]programming #feminism #software #computerscience

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Written by yugaego 🌍 on 2024-10-26 at 08:26

@320x200 Thank you. This excellent paper addresses the question(s) I asked myself a day ago. That is, "How are programming languages influenced by being written by men vs by being written by women?" Or sayng it differently, "What would a modern programming world look like if it'd be a predominantly women's field of activity?". So I absorbed the text in its entirety and was glad to find inspirational ideas in it.

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