> On Oct 17, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Rien via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > “culturally offensive” is not a logical argument. > A programming language should be logically consistent no matter how many > cultures are offended by it. > If Swift is driven by SJW’s then very quickly it will cease to be an > effective language.
I don’t think using “SJW” as a slur is appropriate, certainly not in swift-evolution. We aim to be an open and inclusive community. Cultural sensitivity is one of Swift’s goals; that’s why it supports Unicode identifiers… so people can use their native language if they wish. The world is not the Western Latin-1 character set. None of these goals are mutually-exclusive with logical arguments; that’s a false dichotomy. I’m not aware of any programming language that is 100% logically consistent. They all make concessions to programmer culture, history, practical concerns, and even opinion/whims. Python doesn’t have multi-line lambdas because Guido doesn’t like them. Even Haskell has unsafePerformIO because the real world is not a pure function. We talk about how beautiful or ugly syntax is all the time, which is absolutely a value judgement. Russ _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
