Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "Linux Foundation is nuts."
Note that my comment expressed disdain for a questionable policy of a corporation.
On a personal level if someone were to ask me to use or not use certain words, of course I would accommodate! As a person with some cognitive differences I understand that people have different and sometimes hard to explain needs.
So let us avoid ad homineming here.
2025-08-31 · 8 months ago
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💎 pista · 2025-08-31 at 13:57:
Perhaps you are sarcastic, but most of my coding time is trying to remember names for things and searching definitions and invocations, which is very hard if you can't remember names.
@stack You just made me think it’s going to be really funny when someone throws a fit about the function names in an interpreted language and breaks compatibility with 25 years of code, and it will be a nightmare to fix because it’s not like you can just fork a legacy compiler. Web servers all update to the new -x.0 release and suddenly nothing works because most people weren’t paying attention to these stupid arguments.
Someone will be furious about preg_replace() since it could be interpreted as the language spec calling attention to or endorsing white nationalist conspiracies about birth rates and great replacement, and now every PHP script using regex replacement is broken until someone manually updates every single installation with:
Not especially difficult, but really, really stupid.
function names in an interpreted language and breaks compatibility with 25 years of code
if your deployment does not bind to a specific version of compiler + libs (or in this case specific version of an interpreter), I would argue your actions are questionable in first place ;)
🚀 stack [OP] · 2025-08-31 at 15:03:
Some superior languages (cough... Common Lisp) allow you to alias symbol-names as part of package importation.
🦊 AFoxNamedHazel · 2025-08-31 at 20:40:
lol. lmao even.
keep this garbage on r/conservative, not here.
🚀 stack [OP] · 2025-08-31 at 20:54:
Interesting that pushing against authoritarian word banning (and bookburning) is somehow 'conservative'.
I assure you I am not a conservative or a liberal for that matter. I just don't like bull.
And while I appreciate your suggestion, I don't think so. I am glad you find this amusing. To each his/her/their own!
Original Post
Linux Foundation is nuts. — Words are words, and like any blunt object may be used as a weapon or a stepstool. Unfortunately the Linux foundation, instead of focusing on Linux wants to change our language under the banner of 'diversity and inclusivity' by banning words. Master/Slave, valid engineering terms, out. Retarding, nope. I imagine, delayed is also frowned upon. Blacklist is not allowed. Whitelisting is also racist. Black anything is a nono. How about brown, yellow, pink, rainbow or...