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Two developers at least. One of whom is in this very thread. It's a concern, yes, but actually has been around for more than a decade, and is showing absolutely

Two developers at least. One of whom is in this very thread. It's a concern, yes, but actually has been around for more than a decade, and is showing absolutely no sign of slowing down or going into hibernation. I have just seen a ... competing language team spending developer time on purging the code of what they call ableism. apparently it's now offensive to talk of a sanity check ot to facetiously refer to OCD in a comment. At least we may hope the Nim team lacks manpower for such idiocy.

tzs 8y ago
Which competing language team? All I found on Google was this gist of someone saying "sanity check" should be avoided. ("health check, too) [1], and some issues and pull requests in projects that were not languages. One of the latter is clearly trolling to test Linus Torvalds' resolve to be polite [2][3][4][5], complaining about "ableist/saneist" terms, including "silly", on several of Linus' repositories. You can tell it is a troll because it is just copying/pasting the exact same complaint, just changing the name of the project. It is not even bothering to change the list of alleged problematic words and their counts, so for example it is claiming that perconvert has 144 occurrences of "sanity check" when it actually has 0. In fact every single claim on that one is wrong. The only word from the complaint actually in pesconvert is stupid, which occurs one time, not the six times claimed. Second sign it is a troll is that it is from a GitHub account created just before the complaints were posted. [1] https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e38899baf5cc https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 [3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-423660617 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-4236... [4] https://github.com/torvalds/pesconvert/issues/4 https://github.com/torvalds/pesconvert/issues/4 [5] https://github.com/torvalds/test-tlb/issues/5 https://github.com/torvalds/test-tlb/issues/5
- interfixus 8y ago
  Crystal. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612bdbf53b1543ce07ef784b461d6ae https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612b...
  - tzs 8y ago
    Submitted by the same person who is trying to troll Linus. Looks like the troll is happy with the result: > Thank you so much, it's so much more inclusive now. My rabbi will be pleased.
    - interfixus 8y ago
      Trouble is the commit is there: The thing has been taken at face value. This galloping madness is beginning to scare the shit out of me.
      - dTal 8y ago
        No it hasn't. >We realise it's a troll, but we had an internal discussion and we decided that we wanted to remove these anyway. We're not being terrorised into change just because a (bad) troll appeared, they just happened to bring attention to a real issue.
        deleted 8y ago
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        interfixus 8y ago
        "We didn't do it because the troll said so, but because the troll said so". Either way, the decision is ... whichever derogative may not yet be blacklisted, sorry, interdicted.

tzs 8y ago

Which competing language team? All I found on Google was this gist of someone saying "sanity check" should be avoided. ("health check, too) [1], and some issues and pull requests in projects that were not languages. One of the latter is clearly trolling to test Linus Torvalds' resolve to be polite [2][3][4][5], complaining about "ableist/saneist" terms, including "silly", on several of Linus' repositories. You can tell it is a troll because it is just copying/pasting the exact same complaint, just changing the name of the project. It is not even bothering to change the list of alleged problematic words and their counts, so for example it is claiming that perconvert has 144 occurrences of "sanity check" when it actually has 0. In fact every single claim on that one is wrong. The only word from the complaint actually in pesconvert is stupid, which occurs one time, not the six times claimed. Second sign it is a troll is that it is from a GitHub account created just before the complaints were posted. [1] https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e38899baf5cc https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 [3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-423660617 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-4236... [4] https://github.com/torvalds/pesconvert/issues/4 https://github.com/torvalds/pesconvert/issues/4 [5] https://github.com/torvalds/test-tlb/issues/5 https://github.com/torvalds/test-tlb/issues/5

interfixus 8y ago
Crystal. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612bdbf53b1543ce07ef784b461d6ae https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612b...
- tzs 8y ago
  Submitted by the same person who is trying to troll Linus. Looks like the troll is happy with the result: > Thank you so much, it's so much more inclusive now. My rabbi will be pleased.
  - interfixus 8y ago
    Trouble is the commit is there: The thing has been taken at face value. This galloping madness is beginning to scare the shit out of me.
    - dTal 8y ago
      No it hasn't. >We realise it's a troll, but we had an internal discussion and we decided that we wanted to remove these anyway. We're not being terrorised into change just because a (bad) troll appeared, they just happened to bring attention to a real issue.
      - deleted 8y ago
        [deleted]
      - interfixus 8y ago
        "We didn't do it because the troll said so, but because the troll said so". Either way, the decision is ... whichever derogative may not yet be blacklisted, sorry, interdicted.