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: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:27:52 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> <1vere8pl41of6rpsvblr7omt563pstgh4g@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5a9707252ba5efb9bece56d1f4656a90"; logging-data="31400"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sgLGNg1FA/35sJMKwW+8MGU3RzMOuMbM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <1vere8pl41of6rpsvblr7omt563pstgh4g@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:RC26WXbiZxSDPY/LyOVoEGqe778= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21281 On 1/9/2013 12:51 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 00:30:37 -0800 (PST), "Aryeh M. Friedman" > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone > who said : > >> obsessed > > Surely requiring you to specify gender in situations where it is > irrelevant shows some sort of unhealthy preoccupation with gender. Surely requiring you to specify the subject of a sentence where it is easily inferred from context shows some sort of unhealthy preoccupation with subjects. Or maybe it's just a very useful piece of information that adds redundancy in the language to improve comprehension in lossy media, like a marketplace. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth