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

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 10 18:30:06 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> 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.

'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far 
as I'm aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a 
gender neutral pronoun.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list