Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the land of Haskell

Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by icedchai on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:14PM (#9189038)

Why is they a bad choice? It's worked forever and is already part of the language. Languages evolve.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by protomyth on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:21PM (#9189052)

We trade one dimension of uncertainty for two (count) when we know the count. I just write s/he or avoid pronouns altogether.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by Padding on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:56AM (#9189987)

We did/do that in German too. Some people still ended up being offended.

Go figure.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by codingbinary on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:52AM (#9195922)

And as soon as everyone starts using s/he, bigender people get annoyed that heshe wasn't used. It's language...it's difficult to get everyday usage "normalized" into a different direction.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by ArneBab on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:56AM (#9191539)

I nowadays just use he or she (or rather: try to stick to that - I fumble at times when writing casually), in german and in english. The german form is longer, because the noun also has a gender there.

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