Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java software naming question Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:31:01 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> <3f176891-314f-4411-9509-a148f0e20fd7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b5e4fe56db341d88f7c9c7600d8e654f"; logging-data="11931"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+u+idkNJD0Y0IojkAedw++QtqqcdpXifs=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <3f176891-314f-4411-9509-a148f0e20fd7@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:ey9AsEdtt4ytWaKHBh/E4/AaGxo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21214 On 1/8/2013 9:07 AM, Lew wrote: > The point is that contrary to your claim of "English" having an obsession, > English has had a gender-neutral pronoun in use for centuries. It's called "it". :-) -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth