Comment by 🚀 stack

Big may offend little people and those volumetrically challenged.

You are hereby canceled.

Aug 30 · 4 months ago

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Triggers my sizemophobia. This code is hate speech.

Also an affront to ugly bastards like me

People can use words such as "whitelist", "blacklist", "allow list", etc that they want to do, if it does not result in an unnecessary confusion. If you want to avoid a word and use something else instead, OK, but don't force everyone to do, and don't ban words. Furthermore, you should consider the consequences before changing an existing program; there might be significant advantages to avoid changing it even if the new word is otherwise better.

Also, a flight recorder is sometimes called a "black box" but it shouldn't be called that, because it is orange and is not black.

@flipperzero, wow, that is something to bring up with your therapist. We are an inclusive community, I hope, and anger at people expressing a negative opinion about banning words is not necessary.

What -is- the importance of retaining

This is shifting the burden.

Everything is political.

No it isn't. This cliché is used to smuggle in ontological premises. I don’t believe the gravity holding me to this planet or the beauty of a sunset is mediated exclusively through socially constructed power relations. I do believe a concept that encompasses everything explains nothing.

@stacks Speak for yourself, cut it out with your bad faith baits and one-sided hurled projections if you’re gonna attempt discourse. Get a clue, and lot of talk for someone that can’t handle shifts in dialects of jargon. Christ, what a lack of perspective and self-awareness.

WTF! I stated my case, listened to arguments I don't agree with -- some reasonable, countered some points made and even thanked participants I disagree with.

What's your problem? Someone doesn't agree with your idea of what's fair?

Your response is completely inappropriate.

@flipperzero Let's keep it civil? Your long comment above was unpublished so you can move it elsewhere if you want.

Note that my comment expressed disdain for a questionable policy of a corporation.

On a personal level if someone were to ask me to use or not use certain words, of course I would accommodate! As a person with some cognitive differences I understand that people have different and sometimes hard to explain needs.

So let us avoid ad homineming here.

Perhaps you are sarcastic, but most of my coding time is trying to remember names for things and searching definitions and invocations, which is very hard if you can't remember names.

@stack You just made me think it’s going to be really funny when someone throws a fit about the function names in an interpreted language and breaks compatibility with 25 years of code, and it will be a nightmare to fix because it’s not like you can just fork a legacy compiler. Web servers all update to the new -x.0 release and suddenly nothing works because most people weren’t paying attention to these stupid arguments.

Someone will be furious about preg_replace() since it could be interpreted as the language spec calling attention to or endorsing white nationalist conspiracies about birth rates and great replacement, and now every PHP script using regex replacement is broken until someone manually updates every single installation with:

function preg_replace($pattern, $replcement, $subject, $limit=-1, $count=null) {
  return new_retardedness($pattern, $replcement, $subject, $limit, $count);
}

Not especially difficult, but really, really stupid.

function names in an interpreted language and breaks compatibility with 25 years of code

if your deployment does not bind to a specific version of compiler + libs (or in this case specific version of an interpreter), I would argue your actions are questionable in first place ;)

Some superior languages (cough... Common Lisp) allow you to alias symbol-names as part of package importation.

lol. lmao even.

keep this garbage on r/conservative, not here.

Interesting that pushing against authoritarian word banning (and bookburning) is somehow 'conservative'.

I assure you I am not a conservative or a liberal for that matter. I just don't like bull.

And while I appreciate your suggestion, I don't think so. I am glad you find this amusing. To each his/her/their own!

Original Post

Linux Foundation is nuts. — Words are words, and like any blunt object may be used as a weapon or a stepstool. Unfortunately the Linux foundation, instead of focusing on Linux wants to change our language under the banner of 'diversity and inclusivity' by banning words. Master/Slave, valid engineering terms, out. Retarding, nope. I imagine, delayed is also frowned upon. Blacklist is not allowed. Whitelisting is also racist. Black anything is a nono. How about brown, yellow, pink, rainbow or...