Re: [tlug] Making programming easier... or something like that

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:
 > 2012/10/29 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:
 > 
 > > Again, I believe (though I can't prove it) that there is a reason why
 > > essentially all genius mathematicians, and an overwhelming majority of
 > > programmers -- especially hackers -- are male.
 > 
 > IANAS, but I think nurture is the bigger issue here.

Well, I can't do what Galois or Einstein did, and even in hindsight I
can only see what they did, not how they did it.  These people just
think differently from the rest of us.  I accept that they also think
better (in their fields -- consider Nobelist John Nash), but that's
incidental to handling the difficulty of their genuinely weird ideas.
Heck, it's not just me -- consider what G. H. Hardy said about
Srinivasa Ramanujan.

OK, I've shown you mine.  Now, where does your intuition come from?