Girl Programmers

Good $(date), /prog/! I'm the Symta guy (Nikita). If you still remember me, you will recall that I've found a programming job, so I've less time for text boards. Yet I promise to finish the Symta and join or start some Lisp OS project.

I also met a beautiful girl. She is a rare girl programmer, graduated from polytechnical university. She is cute, smart and wears glasses (http://minus.com/lwlti63gm5hO4). You wont find another girl like her in Russia, especially Serpukhov. No Leah Culver jokes, please.

The only thing I fear is that she Jewish, because she is too smart for a Russian girl and cites Faina Ranevsky. I will kill myself if she is. Help me prog!

She was born as Faina Feldman (Фельдман) to a wealthy Jewish family in the city of Taganrog.

Her passion for theater began when she was 14. Her attendance of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theater was an experience that had great impact on her. Her pseudonym "Ranevskaya," which later became her official surname, also came from that theater visit.

In 1915 she left Taganrog for Moscow to pursue a career in the theater. Faina became estranged from her family over her choice of career, which they apparently rejected. She started as an extra actor in crowd or background scenes at the Summer Theater in Malakhovka near Moscow in 1915, where she also had a dacha.

The Feldman family emigrated in 1917, but Faina decided to stay and continued her acting career, working in the theaters of Kerch, Rostov on Don, at the mobile theater "The First Soviet Theater" in Crimea, also in Baku, Arkhangelsk, Smolensk and other cities.