"Chad J" <chadj...@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message news:hambm5$uk...@digitalmars.com... > > Interesting. > > As I read this thread I conjectured that this rule was to help newbie > authors avoid pitfalls that are easier to hit if they use first person. > I'm at a loss for examples. And even if this were so, I'd much > rather my educators had just trained me how to better avoid the pitfalls. > > Perhaps excessive use of first person makes an article/book read more > like a story. Perhaps that's not really a bad thing. > > It amuses me to see this thread where so many professionals and > well-educated peers are chiming in and rejecting this dogma. I never > would have expected it to be so unanimous.
I suspect it may largely be because all the fundamentalism-over-pragmatism types are over at the Java, Smalltalk and Haskell scenes. ;)
