On 24/09/2018 14:52, Robin Becker wrote:
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.
Never mind the justification and the overblown coverage in publications
like the Register - if you look at the patches actually merged (mostly
in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9101/files) they all look like
entirely reasonable changes making docs, docstrings and comments clearer.
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