On 23/09/15 08:17, Christopher Browne wrote:
[...]
>
> "The user should do [something]; he or she or it, or the cis/trans/asexual
> personage or connection used by a web application, whether written in
> C, Java, Perl, PHP, running on Windows or Unix or ..." as the increasing
> inclusions heads to some pathological limit.
[...]
> order to be politically correct" will irritate people; instead, make the
> documentation *better*. Replacing "he" with
> "he/she/cis/trans/Unix/Windows"
> (or some such) wouldn't make it *better*. (And probably that's a phrase
> that's missing some legalistic wherefores whereases!)
[...]
You also have to include "they" as some people have multiple
personalities, I actually met one (but only - as far as I can tell - saw
one of them) - in the early 1990's I conversed with several people on
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, so got more insights into these types of
complexities than most people. I was doing a project in network
traffic, and got to look at some high volume usenet groups, of which
that group was one.
Don't forget GNU/Linux, & GNU/Hurd, plus many others... :-)
I'll settle for avoiding unnecessary use of gender!
Cheers,
Gavin
