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I don’t see any reference to “white supremacy” in that link. > Instead of requiring that comments be written in Strunk & White Standard English, require instea
by klodolph 6y ago
I don’t see any reference to “white supremacy” in that link.
> Instead of requiring that comments be written in Strunk & White Standard English, require instead that English-language comments be clear and easily understandable by other English speakers. This accomplishes the same goal without alienating or putting up barriers for people (especially people of color) whose native dialect of English is not Standard English.
I think we can all get behind this. The idea is that if you speak Indian English and refer to the contents of a written program as “codes” rather than “code”, that is completely fine, since it is clear and easily understandable by other English speakers. Strunk & White is kind of a trainwreck of a style manual anyway (the linked article articulates many of my complaints, but I have others). Maybe its popularity was deserved in earlier decades, I don’t know, I’m not a historian.
- Alex3917 6y ago> I don’t see any reference to "white supremacy" in that link. It's a reference to these threads on the Python-dev mailing list: https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/bvCo9Zp3SMeuyZy7qynl0Q/ https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/bvCo9Zp3SMeuyZy7qynl0Q/ https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/Ci1fgOGUQHa7znO03M3apQ/ https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/Ci1fgOGUQHa7znO03M3apQ/
- klodolph 6y agoI think it’s fine and good that people hash these things out in the mailing list. I see no point in digging through mailing lists and making attributions to “Python Developers” as a whole, based on something at the very least they decided they wanted to remove from commit messages.