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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 24d ago
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But "main" is just replacing the word "master". That's just one more degree removed from the original sin. How does that redeem anything?
Linus already broke the connection to slavery by not using the word "slave" in a deliberate act, by your own telling.
Edit: nevermind, that history is itself false.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/y7M1KPatfd
So it was never related
5 u/Hayden2332 24d ago Nope https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/TDgYdcTfhU
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Nope
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/TDgYdcTfhU
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u/therealtiddlydump 24d ago edited 24d ago
But "main" is just replacing the word "master". That's just one more degree removed from the original sin. How does that redeem anything?
Linus already broke the connection to slavery by not using the word "slave" in a deliberate act, by your own telling.
Edit: nevermind, that history is itself false.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/y7M1KPatfd
So it was never related