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

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/13/2015 10:26 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:

>
> Actually I think it matters more if the person you are talking to knows
> the gender of the person you are talking about, in the shop sentence the
> gender of the friend is unknown to the person you are talking to so
> "they" still works.

So then, use the gender-specific pronoun and the listener is no longer 
in the dark! What the listener knows or doesn't know doesn't play into 
it in this case. 'My friend' is a specific person, and specific people 
have a gender. Someone, anyone, a person, a human, etc... are all 
generic, so the gender is always unknown to the speaker.