... Female software engineers are so rare, that when Ellen Ullman 's autobiographical Close to the Machine ... ... I recently found a two-part article by Ullman in Salon about "The dumbing-down of programming ... http://www.fridgebuzz.com/2001_02_01_arch.html Ellen Ullman 's autobiographical Close to the Machine ... ... I recently found a two-part article by Ullman in Salon about "The dumbing-down of programming ... http://www.fridgebuzz.com/2001_02_01_arch.html ... I recently found a two-part a... [excerpted by wisenut]