HASTAC is an academic network whose members blog on technology, education, and culture, including feminism and programming languages.
HN links it for the contested 'Feminism and Programming Languages' post, which one commenter flagged as being spread on hostile sites; also for Dennis Ritchie code eulogies.
Non-mobile link, if anyone cares: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages
It's been discussed and linked around here many times, eg, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893756
My view, for what its worth, is that she's asking good and valuable questions. We do have different programming paradigms, and those paradigms do shape how we solve problems, and even what problems we can solve, and it is very possible that a different viewpoint could stumble on a very different paradigm. There's a long history of outsiders making valuable contributions to programming and computer science.
...that being said, I rather doubt she's going to get far. The odds of someone doing a bit of research and coming up with something like functional programming or lambda calculus (which as I understand it is more or less what she wants to do) is effectively nil, no matter who you are. But I wish her the best of luck.
The website doesn't give a good overview of this software on the landing page, so here is a description from the About page:
> A scholarly voice playground, Paperphone is an interactive audio application that processes voice and sound materials live and in-context. Designed to challenge the privileging of text over act in humanities scholarship, Paperphone is a performative platform for scholars to unravel the expressive potential of voice and audio in sharing academic works.
A more in-depth overview of the rationale and philosophy behind Paperphone can be found here: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/wendyfhsu/2014/03/05/paperphone-beta-releasing-scholarly-audio-application
I've just flagged this..this page is being spread around on a lot of these very hateful "Men's Rights" websites, and it's not just about mocking feminism as an ideology (which I can even relate to - the link http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages is pretty face palm worthy), but several of the comments/humour is implying that the female code author is some "math is sooo hard" barbie type character. I read Hacker News to escape this kind of thing. While some may enjoy it, I don't think it's appropriate for HN or Gcode/Github/Bitbucket for that matter, which is most likely why the latter sites shut it down.
Really?
When Dennis Ritchie died, I saw someone post the following:
main()
{
printf("hello, afterworld\n");
}
There are more here: http://hastac.org/blogs/earksiinni/2011/10/13/curious-collection-code-eulogies-honor-late-dennis-ritchie-1941-2011
Does poetry itself not mean not being held back by any standard or pre-defined definition, and instead, seeks to challenge and/or convey an idea through sound, words, symbols, and images?
This is a reaction to Arielle Schlesinger: "In the scope of my research, a feminist programming language is to be built around a non-normative paradigm that represents alternative ways of abstracting. The intent is to encourage and allow new ways of thinking about problems such that we can code using a feminist ideology." And she wasn't joking. http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages
I think it is a reaction to this - http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages
I am still trying to work out if that article is satire or not as it seems to be in a similar vein as Alan Sokal's "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html