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> the idea that you have to be "passionate about computers" to do the job is one of those things that men have made up to exclude women.

I mean if you've been programming since you were 8 and consider it your identity its not that far to go into believing that anyone who is good has to have the same background. Gender doesn't have anything to do with it.

For what its worth I thought this way until it was proven otherwise to me after enough time in the industry.