Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?
Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d
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Wed Jun 10 17:57:32 PDT 2015
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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.
Personally I don't perceive he as ever being gender neutral(us
native speaker). If I am trying to be gender neutral then I will
use "they" or "that person" or "one". If some one did try to use
he in a gender neutral context then I think it would sound weird
to me.
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