Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > So I thought I'd ask a candid question in here. How do you feel about > moderate use of the first person in a technical book? Do you find it > comfortable, neutral, or cringeworthy?
Occasionally a technical author finds that a personal anecdote or opinion is useful for illustrating a concept. The author then has these choices: 1. Leave it out. 2. Treat it as a universal fact. 3. Anonymize it. 4. Talk about himself in the third person. 5. Use first person. The first three options are clearly bad because information is lost. I prefer option 5 over option 4, but both are acceptable to me. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
