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From: brad%looking.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Women Wizards?
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Yes, I think Grace Hopper qualifies.  But I'm not sure when I hear the
word "Wizard" it conjures up "top support person" or corporate programmer.

To me that means the true creators of the industry.  The ones who made
the big discoveries or wrote the landmark programs almost single-handedly.
Folks like Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie.

There are only a thousand or so of these people in the world, perhaps.
They are almost all men, with Admiral Hopper one of the very few exceptions.

This is the question we should answer.  I have a general answer, later.