[OT] master/slave debate in Python
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Mon Sep 24 08:52:40 EDT 2018
On 23/09/2018 15:45, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> *sigh*. I'm with Hettinger on this.
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/11/python_purges_master_and_slave_in_political_pogrom/
>
I am as well. Don't fix what is not broken. The semantics (in programming) might not be an exact match, but people have been using
these sorts of terms for a long time without anyone objecting. This sort of language control is just thought control of the wrong
sort.
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Robin Becker
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