BGB <cr88...@gmail.com> writes: > but you can't really afford a house without a job, and can't have a > job without a car (so that the person can travel between their job and > their house).
Job is an invention of the Industrial era. AFAIK, our great great grand parents had houses. > I don't really think it is about gender role or stereotypes, but > rather it is more basic: > people mostly operate in terms of the pursuit of their best personal > interests. Ok. > so, typically, males work towards having a job, getting lots money, > ... and will choose females based mostly how useful they are to > themselves (will they be faithful, would they make a good parent, > ...). Well it's clear that it's not their best interest to do that: only about 40% males reproduce in this setup. > in this case, then society works as a sort of sorting algorithm, with > "better" mates generally ending up together (rich business man with > trophy wife), and worse mates ending up together (poor looser with a > promiscuous or otherwise undesirable wife). And this is also the problem, not only for persons, but for society: the sorting is done on criteria that are bad. Perhaps they were good to survive in the savanah, but they're clearly an impediment to develop a safe technological society. >> Well, perhaps. This is not my way to learn how to program (once really) >> or to learn a new programming language. > > dunno, I learned originally partly by hacking on pre-existing > codebases, and by cobbling things together and seeing what all did and > did not work (and was later partly followed by looking at code and > writing functionally similar mock-ups, ...). > > some years later, I started writing a lot more of my own code, which > largely displaced the use of cobbled-together code. > > from what I have seen in code written by others, this sort of cobbling > seems to be a fairly common development process for newbies. I learn programming languages basically by reading the reference, and by exploring the construction of programs from the language rules. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
