[Python-ideas] Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 13 18:41:31 EDT 2018
Jacco van Dorp wrote:
> You can have master and slave devices - for example, if
> I have a PC that tells a robot what to do, my PC is the master and the
> robot the slave.
If we're going to object to "slave", we should object to "robot"
as well, since it's derived from a Czech word meaning "forced
worker".
https://www.etymonline.com/word/robot
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Greg
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