Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 10 12:22:37 PDT 2015


On 06/10/2015 09:05 PM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> ...
>
> At some point you just have question intent if there is a
> misunderstanding, rather than control every expression or else
> everything becomes "it":
>
> "A bad programmer create bugs when it edits its files...".
>

Just use plural, it's what you mean anyway.

"Bad programmers create bugs when they edit their files...".

> And if people force you to write "it", ...

"it" doesn't seem appropriate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns#It_and_one_as_gender-neutral_pronouns

"However, when not referring specifically to children, "it" is not 
generally applied to people, even in cases where their gender is unknown."


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