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I use "Ali" and "Bo", because they are (a) gender-neutral, (b) less Western, and (c) prefixes of "Alice" and "Bob".
by norvig 5y ago
I use "Ali" and "Bo", because they are (a) gender-neutral, (b) less Western, and (c) prefixes of "Alice" and "Bob".
- rcarmo 5y ago…and retain the important property of being in alphabetical order.
- me_me_me 5y agoto gain... absolutely nothing. I would even go as far as to claim you are devaluing your work by making your examples more confusing to the reader. Why not call A and B, 漢 and الْحُرُو That would surely be better
- dragonwriter 5y agoIf you are using the English language and names chosen to have unique starting letters in the Latin alphabet, starting with the first letter of that alphabet and moving forward, you have not meaningfully avoided Western (and more specifically Anglosphere) cultural bias, and avoiding domain-specific conventional names for that reason is a particularly meaningless gesture.