I have gentle fun in some of my code and note I have a pointer to my mommy. I
figure people can figure that out and get the chuckle. Of course, that's in my
own code for myself and maybe others if I toss it onto GitHub. I also stick in
the occasional Daddy. So it might even out. I don't obsess at that level. I just
try my level best, which is not as good as I'd like, to get it right.
{^_^}
On 20200710 01:35:16, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> jdow <jdow@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> As a woman engineer, retired, after many years in industry even "gents"
>> does not bother me. It goes with the territory. And if I had a dollar
>> for every time I heard "you guys" from a woman talking to other women
>> I'd be almost as rich as poor man Biden.
>>
>> Political correctness has no place in engineering. Clarity of
>> communications is a basis of the craft. When you disrupt it things
>> break. (eg Mars landers)
>
> I agree, but when you ban blacklist and whitelist, it is a bit
> inconsistent when you not also take care of the gender terms.
> To be honest, I think the gender terms have a better case to be
> changed as blacklist and whitelist.
>
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