X-Received: by 10.68.202.68 with SMTP id kg4mr10664270pbc.3.1357633837478; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.94.143 with SMTP id dc15mr10699355qeb.32.1357633837414; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:30:37 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!ld4no44890pbb.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni95131pbb.0!nntp.google.com!ld4no44884pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 00:30:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.14.119.173; posting-account=lPVJQwoAAACjT2AlnY0YSj2LC4j2qtwQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.14.119.173 References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: java software naming question From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Cc: Roedy Green Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:30:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21201 On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:22:41 AM UTC-5, Roedy Green wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:58:17 -0600, Joshua Cranmer > > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone > > who said : > > > > >well as gender too, and it wouldn't surprise me if it became more > > >prevalent in singular third-person in 400 years. > > > > English is beginning to use "they" as a singular gender-unspecified > > pronoun. Unless some replacement singular catches on, the number > > distinction will disappear. "he" is supposed to play that role, but > > you won't find many people defending that view any more. > > > > Maybe we could borrow the new hen from Swedish. > > > > -- > > Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com > > Students who hire or con others to do their homework are as foolish > > as couch potatoes who hire others to go to the gym for them. This is as pointless as saying Java is obsessed with semicolons, ()/[]/{}, etc.