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ape4 • today at 6:01 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Good luck to the Perl function Text::GenderFromName()

Maybe it needs the birthday


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andix • today at 6:24 PM

I guess it's eternally stuck in the 90s. I didn't see Perl in a long time now. 10-15 years ago it was still everywhere.

edit: No, it's stuck in the 80s: "The data comes from a 5% sampling of Social Security card applications with dates of birth from January 1980 through December 1989"

https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::GenderFromName#REGARDING-THE-...

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rconti • today at 6:17 PM

I thought you must be joking. You were not!

boscillator • today at 6:55 PM

Why did anyone even try and make this? It's fascinating what incomputable functions people try to shoe-horn into being computable.

Terr_ • today at 6:37 PM

I'm sure there are a few competing "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" out there by now.