From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH to gcc-3.0.html
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7D9BEF.161DD8@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108172045070.57605-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
[ Off-topic ? ]
> It's amazing how many private replies I got pointing out my mistake
> yesterday, so I investigated why I arrived at my (incorrect) conclusion:
As compiler writers, we are accustomed to interrogate the principles
behind the languages we use.
Therefore, the fact that one *has* to indicate gender with the third
person singular pronoun should not be a cause for excuses, but for a
flame-fest.
:-)
[ I only know a handful of European languages - Dutch, English, German,
French, Latin, (classical) Greek, a stitch of the Nordic languages
and Celtic ones - all of them seem to have this trait ]
--
Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290
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[ PS: Thanks for the Joplin reference - that reminded me I have some
great music around here ... ]
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-17 10:12 Janis Johnson
2001-08-17 11:56 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-08-17 15:33 ` Toon Moene [this message]
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