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

Martijn Faassen m.faassen@vet.uu.nl
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:19:28 +0200


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
brazil?), and in Portuguese gender/pronoun use is probably different
than in English. It tends to be more complicated in most Indo-European
languages. But English is nice and simple this way.

Regards,

Martijn