Hi Chris, On 3 Jun 2010, at 21:01, Christina Gratorp wrote: > I found a bug in the intro pages for automake: > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence > "The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile" > must be wrong since I'm a woman and a user and have packages I want to build > and those packages are mine, i.e *hers* would be correct in this case. > > Suggestion: change the sentence to "The developer expresses the recipe to > build *his/hers* package in a Makefile" or "The developer expresses the > recipe to build *the* package in a Makefile"
But then it would be wrong for an even larger percentage of automake users, almost none of which are hermaphrodites. At least with male pronouns we're exactly right 90% of the time or so. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan ([email protected])
