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CS is filled with such terms like zombies, orphans, reaping dead children, etc but nobody finds them offensive as we know it has nothing to do with their litera
by superasn 6y ago
CS is filled with such terms like zombies, orphans, reaping dead children, etc but nobody finds them offensive as we know it has nothing to do with their literal meaning.
- sabertoothed 6y agoWe should avoid offensive language if there is a simple alternative without any loss in clarity / semantics. EDIT: Misread and deleted parts.
- viraptor 6y agoReaping, not raping.
- tehwebguy 6y agoSeems easy enough to imagine who would be offended by the use of terms “orphans” and “dead children,” and why they would prefer not to bring it up constantly.
- luckylion 6y agoThe issue is that you can have that with nearly every term that has some meaning. Leader/follower? But I've once met a terrible Leader and they had many followers that made my life hell. If the argument is "but that's only true for very few people": what percentage of the population (or the subset of the population that is programming) does need to be affected before it needs to be changed? Orphans aren't that common either, neither is losing a child.
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- s9w 6y agoThey would find it offensive - just look at the santa hat debacle of vscode. But they don't know the terms you listed. It's not like these people know anything about or even have an interest in software dev. They're a purely destructive force, hopping from victim to victim and spreading wherever they find weakness.