Does D have any political goals?

thebluepandabear therealbluepandabear at protonmail.com
Wed Nov 9 21:11:50 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at 14:01:38 UTC, Quirin Schroll 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 10:46:55 UTC, Quirin Schroll 
> wrote:
>> [snip]
>
> 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.*
>
> However, I cannot remember seeing it in the forum.

Hm, yeah -- I would consider that to have political undertone, 
but at least it was only a draft and wasn't actually released.


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