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

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 10 13:14:09 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:41:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:18:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> It's always a good idea to not go personal, but I think they 
>> overdo it when you're not allowed to write "he" as a general 
>> term because it is gender specific.
>
> That's actually a good idea, you might not have noticed it, but 
> I rarely use "he" alone as a general term and I notice it when 
> other people do. Little things like this in language can make a 
> difference in people's feelings and cause discomfort in the 
> environment.

Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage, 
"he" is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few 
occasional nutbags who deliberately ignore the "gender-neutral" 
possibility in order to promote their "you are all sexists" 
agenda is NO excuse for bowing to thier pressure.


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