"He" is commonly used as a gender neutral way of referring to a person of unknown gender. It has also become common to use "she" as gender neutral so as to not

"He" is commonly used as a gender neutral way of referring to a person of unknown gender. It has also become common to use "she" as gender neutral so as to not be exclusive. I don't think that in this case the author is making any comment (explicitly or implicitly) about who is or should be coding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral