Barbie and Perl

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Wed Nov 19 21:51:00 GMT 2014


Amusing rewrite:
http://caseyfiesler.com/2014/11/18/barbie-remixed-i-really-can-be-a-computer-engineer/

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, Guinevere Nell <guinevere.nell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi London.pm (ers)
>
> Having just got a reminder from perl's Barbie about LPW, it occured to me
> that I could share not-perl's Barbie's atrocious book about what it means
> for a girl to think about going into computery stuff ~ a girl computer
> engineer ?? ... Don't worry, she'll let the boys do all the hard stuff...
>
> Since I know the perl community would like to welcome the femalier sex into
> its folds (let's not imagine folds of fat, please), I thought you all might
> be interested:
>
> http://gizmodo.com/barbie-f-cks-it-up-again-1660326671
>
> What an amazing role model for girls, huh?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guinevere
>
> p.s. please feel free to share with the rest of the perl community and
> brainstorm about possible open-source / public domain solutions to this
> rubbish ...
>
>
> --
> http://economicliberty.net/
>


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