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Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

by rajathagasthya on 10/8/18, 8:07 AM with 8 comments

  • by wemdyjreichert on 10/8/18, 1:24 PM

    This is equivalent to Farmers banning the word "hoe". This just strikes me as kind of silly. I forwarded this to an African-American friend who works with Python a lot. His response was "Lol, why?"
  • by vectorEQ on 10/8/18, 8:15 AM

    love it how some people are so easily butt-hurt about these kinds of words, while other people in slave families in other countries have no problem configuring their IDE drives without getting insulted by the terminology.
  • by jason_slack on 10/8/18, 11:52 AM

    Apple did this a long while ago replacing with leader and follower.