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Specifically Ada Lovelace described what we’d now call computer programs in her own language while assisting in the creation of adding machines.

She’s widely regarded as the first programmer.

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Sure.

The statement quoted above, however, is childish.

The statement that "women invented programming" is as meaningless as "men invented mathematics". It is blind to all the contributions of everyone that preceded and entire field.

Precisely.

The redditization of HN: activism vs critical thinking.

Exactly. Notice how the two comments calling out the childish comment, one simply asking why and one questioning the claim, were downvoted. "We need more women in the field" really means "we want more women in the field" and they refuse to reflect on why they want this. I assume it must be some kind of guilt that's been drummed in.

I mean, an argument could be made that more diverse life experiences could lead to more diverse approaches to solving problems.

So if that’s true, and I think it is, then it’d be a good thing to get more <insert underrepresented group> working in <some field>

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