Does D have any political goals?

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On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at 14:01:38 UTC, Quirin Schroll 
wrote:
>
> I forgot that I’ve seen DIP drafts that used *her* pronouns to 
> refer to an abstract programmer. I’d consider that overtly 
> politically motivated. My personal taste is not even deciding 
> between generic *he* and the recently emerging, yet disputed 
> among linguists, “singular” *they* and just go with *they* and 
> use the plural *programmers.*

Using "he", "she" or "they" in a technical paper without 
referring what that means is an error, similar to a dangling 
motivator error. You can use "the raccoon" if you want to but you 
must explain what that means in the text. Using "the user" might 
also need a clarification, like the end user/customer of a 
particular library. In legal documents this is even more 
important in order to avoid ambiguities.

In my opinion, using he/she/they in technical documentations 
should be avoided as far as possible and it also looks amateurish.