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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