Grace Hopper comes to mind, a guru on the big iron
of the 40's & 50's - Adm. Hopper, USN, actually.
Originated the term "bug" for pgming glitches.
In the early defense projects women were preferred
as pgmrs, as they were considered better suited to
the painstaking nature of the task...
And howja miss Alice? :)

Regards, Jack


> >I know it is Politically Incorrect but this firmly convinced me
> > of the innate differences there are between men and women.
> >And this is nowhere better illustrated than this List: there are
> > no women here.
> >How many programmers are women - 5% at most I would guess.
>
> There are and have been a few women on the PICList, maybe not on this
> particular thread.
> The first programmer in th world is said to have been a woman (Countess Ada
> Lovelace)(she probably wasn't the first actually but she definitiely was
> well versed in the technology).