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Can you speak to the historical racism or slavery associated with the name red black trees? I’m genuinely curious as I don’t know the history.
by bendergarcia 6y ago
Can you speak to the historical racism or slavery associated with the name red black trees? I’m genuinely curious as I don’t know the history.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoLynching black people and hanging them from trees where their red blood ran. "Red black tree" reduces that history to a mere three words and should really be changed. That may sound preposterous, but it's making the same claim as the rest of the moral panic over names in tech.
- bendergarcia 6y agoAccording to Wikipedia it’s because of the printing capabilities in the 70s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#Histo...