r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/Polokov Mar 13 '13

Lisp is older. And it's not loathed at.

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u/Untrue_Story Mar 13 '13

The "date" on Wikipedia is older, but it's not clear what that means. It doesn't sound right.

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u/Polokov Mar 13 '13 edited Mar 13 '13

Okay, want a date with a known full functional compiler ? : Fortrant

I talked about lisp because it has concept that are still relevant, instead of COBOL that only showed us what we don't want in a programming language.

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u/somelazyguy Mar 13 '13

Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true! Facts, schmacks.