[Zope] Is Zope It/He/She? (Wast Re: [Zope] Python + PHP).

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> ÀÌ°ü¼ö wrote:
> > 
> > Just occured reading this.
> > 
> > > But, i have worked both with Zope and PHP, and i like zope more than PHP
> > > because *he* is more organized and is based on objects, this does much (my emphasis).
> > 
> > What do you call/think Zope? It, He, She?
> > 
> > LEE Kwan Soo.
> > 
> > Indo-European languages seems much obsessed with gender/pronoun ...
> 
> Actually, English is a very nice language that way. You use 'it'
> whenever the gender isn't obvious (like an actual female human, or a
> male human). 'he/she' are also used occasionally when there's extreme
> emotional attachment to some object (ships traditionally, 'My ship!
> She's sinking!' or computers nowadays :). 
> 
> Zope's an 'it'. I think Mauricio who used 'he' is from Brazil (.br is
Well, it's definitly an it ;)
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Andreas
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