Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave'

Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by chadcmulligan on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:48AM (#23820693)

My wife used to say that a lot of the words were sexist and violent in programming - e.g. when I talked about killing a child process, I never thought about it, but some do it seems.

(I've also had women say, they'd never become programmers - its to competitive and macho), to be more inclusive language means something to many people. I'd feel silly for example if instead of saying fork a process, we say we nurture a child process. I can't speak to race - grumpy old white guy, but I can see how it would matter.

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Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by david38 on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:38AM (#23821215)

Girls in school avoid CS because the dudes themselves were assholes. I saw this firsthand countless times.

Once critical mass is reached (enough girls where they don’t feel like outsiders) the machismo calms down. Not once have I ever heard a girl in class say anything about the language. It’s always been about the behavior of the boys.

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Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by andy_ppp on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:10AM (#23820950)

But this is where new meaning has been attached to words by the people using them. Words alone apart from one specific word aren’t inherently racist or in the example you give anything to do with juvenile murder.

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