Use of first person in a book

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Chad J" <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Interesting.
>
> As I read this thread I conjectured that this rule was to help newbie
> authors avoid pitfalls that are easier to hit if they use first person.
>   I'm at a loss for examples.  And even if this were so, I'd much
> rather my educators had just trained me how to better avoid the pitfalls.
>
> Perhaps excessive use of first person makes an article/book read more
> like a story.  Perhaps that's not really a bad thing.
>
> It amuses me to see this thread where so many professionals and
> well-educated peers are chiming in and rejecting this dogma.  I never
> would have expected it to be so unanimous.

I suspect it may largely be because all the fundamentalism-over-pragmatism 
types are over at the Java, Smalltalk and Haskell scenes. ;)