Comment Diversity is NOT the problem (Score 1) 493
Diversity is not the problem. The problem is they're encouraging people to program despite ability, or perhaps we should say inability and disinclination.
I don't want a surgeon because she's black and female to operate on me. I want a surgeon to operate on me because she is skilled and experienced, because she has a high success rate, because she's the right surgeon for the job.
Picking programmers to fill diversity quotas is a nonsensical way of doing business. Pick the programmers who are excellent.
Political correctness needs to die.