[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

-- 
Greg


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