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C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language

29 points by xcyu 13y ago

buugs 13y ago
The only reason this should be of any interest is that github took it down: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...
- pmiller2 13y ago
  Now that's a story worthy of being on HN: Github censoring for content. Granted, said content is utter drek.
- MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
  Also, it was pretty funny. GitHub taking this down is... concerning. This will do nothing for the cause of women, en contraire.
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- jacalata 13y ago
  it is satire, created by 4chan. http://imgur.com/a/kzglk#0 http://imgur.com/a/kzglk#0
- skj 13y ago
  How could it be anything other than satire? Did you read any of it?
  - rwbhn 13y ago
    http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/femin...
wmf 13y ago
The author(s) correctly identify ASCII as basically Hitler, but UTF-8 is still a pretty white-privileged encoding. UCS-4 is more respectful of cultural diversity.
ddellacosta 13y ago
It's mind-boggling that someone has spent so much time on this when they could instead have been creating something useful, meaningful, or, at the least, actually funny.
- vezzy-fnord 13y ago
  It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/). The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers. Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.
  - fedups 13y ago
    The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946
- yetanotherphd 13y ago
  What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.
  - true_religion 13y ago
    Poe's law is strongly in effect here.
    - yetanotherphd 13y ago
      Let me clarify. I am not a feminist but I do consider women to be people. I was making a reference to the common claim that being a feminist is equivalent to considering women to be people.
espertus 13y ago
I'm a card-carrying feminist* and thought it was hilarious, although I can understand how others might feel differently. I guess it depends on whether you see it as a dispute between different schools of feminism or between feminists and anti-feminists. Count me a pro-humor feminist. I never laugh so hard as when I laugh at myself. *I think my Mills College faculty ID counts.

29 points by xcyu 13y ago

buugs 13y ago

The only reason this should be of any interest is that github took it down: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

pmiller2 13y ago
Now that's a story worthy of being on HN: Github censoring for content. Granted, said content is utter drek.
MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
Also, it was pretty funny. GitHub taking this down is... concerning. This will do nothing for the cause of women, en contraire.

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jacalata 13y ago
it is satire, created by 4chan. http://imgur.com/a/kzglk#0 http://imgur.com/a/kzglk#0
skj 13y ago
How could it be anything other than satire? Did you read any of it?
- rwbhn 13y ago
  http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/femin...

wmf 13y ago

The author(s) correctly identify ASCII as basically Hitler, but UTF-8 is still a pretty white-privileged encoding. UCS-4 is more respectful of cultural diversity.

ddellacosta 13y ago

It's mind-boggling that someone has spent so much time on this when they could instead have been creating something useful, meaningful, or, at the least, actually funny.

vezzy-fnord 13y ago
It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/). The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers. Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.
- fedups 13y ago
  The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946
yetanotherphd 13y ago
What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.
- true_religion 13y ago
  Poe's law is strongly in effect here.
  - yetanotherphd 13y ago
    Let me clarify. I am not a feminist but I do consider women to be people. I was making a reference to the common claim that being a feminist is equivalent to considering women to be people.

espertus 13y ago

I'm a card-carrying feminist* and thought it was hilarious, although I can understand how others might feel differently. I guess it depends on whether you see it as a dispute between different schools of feminism or between feminists and anti-feminists. Count me a pro-humor feminist. I never laugh so hard as when I laugh at myself. *I think my Mills College faculty ID counts.