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Women use a code more "user friendly" than men

all know that men do not like to ask for directions ... apparently we do not like to "directions" in computer code.

Emma McGrattan, vice president of enterprise technology Ingres and one of the most senior programmers in Silicon Valley insists that men and women write code very differently. Women are more considerate of the people who used the code later. Usually interspersed among the code strings complete instructions and comments, to explain why he wrote fixed line and path used to it.

The code becomes a kind of "guide" for others who may wish to change or add something, according to McGrattan, who has been in Ingres since 1992.

Men on the other hand not so gently. Often " try to prove their intelligence by writing very cryptic code ," according to the Bussiness Technology Blog. " They try to obfuscate things in the code " and do not leave clear instructions for those who have to use it later. McGrattan boasts that 70-80 percent of the time can tell, seeing a fragment of code, if written by a man or a woman.

In an effort to make Ingres computer code easier to use, she helped institute new coding standards on the company. Require developers to include a detailed set of comments before each block of code to explain what role does this passage and why. Developers must also submit a detailed list of changes that have taken place in the code. The rules apply to both Ingres employees as members of the open source community who contribute to the code of some of their products.

In Ingres about 20 percent of engineers are women, McGrattan says. Most of them are in jobs involving quality assurance or adapting the product to a new location. Hard work to write code leave it to them. Extracted

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