From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Toon Moene To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Janis Johnson , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PATCH to gcc-3.0.html Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B7D9BEF.161DD8@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg01067.html 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 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction) [ PS: Thanks for the Joplin reference - that reminded me I have some great music around here ... ]