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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by Muromec on Monday May 27, 2024 @05:53PM (#40495115)
Language families other than romance and germanic exist.
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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @12:01AM (#40497203)
And programmers who work in those languages are more than welcome to use terms that make sense to them! There is zero reason to change terms that are perfectly clear to English speaking programmers simply because not everyone speaks English (or languages where English got its words from).
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