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Swift: Change master/slave to leader/follower
- Volundr 11y agoAlready submitted [1] less than two hours ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677423
- ashtonkutcher2 11y agoOh boy. Here we go. Another prompt for diatribes on the rampant overly-sensitive coddled generation oft-offended PC oppression crusaders threatening our freedom of expression by bowdlerizing traditional language which had specific meaning in a specific domain. To which the proponents of the change will reply, Languages evolve, and sensitivity matters, and -- you're _a racist_ if you don't agree. So the water in the toilet bowl swirls on.
- jeremy7600 11y agoReally? How did this even get approved? Who was ever offended when they were coding writing out slave in their editor? By technical definition, slave is accurate. It isn't there to offend.
- jeremy7600 11y agoMaster is also accurate, in the technical sense.