From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Felipe Contreras'" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
"'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason'" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, "'Derrick Stolee'" <stolee@gmail.com>,
"'Jeff King'" <peff@peff.net>,
"'Bagas Sanjaya'" <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
"'Robert Karszniewicz'" <avoidr@posteo.de>,
"'Emily Shaffer'" <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" examples
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:02:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <011201d762f2$f82522f0$e86f68d0$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60ca66304a0a0_6027208c8@natae.notmuch>
>From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>Sent: June 16, 2021 4:59 PM
>To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>; Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
>Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>; Jeff King <peff@peff.net>; Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>;
>Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>; Robert Karszniewicz <avoidr@posteo.de>; Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" examples
>
>Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I suggested in [1] that the "alice" and "bob" examples in our
>> > documentation would be better written without a reference to such
>> > fictional characters, for reasons that have nothing to do with
>> > trying to bend over backwards to avoid any reference to people's
>> > gender. It just makes for better documentation.
>>
>> I actually do not mind cast of characters with concrete names,
>> especially when there are more than three parties involved and having
>> names for them help clarify the description. But I agree with you
>> that Alice and Bob should be reserved for situations where appearance
>> of Eve would reasonably be anticipated, or the use of these two names
>> become distracting to those who happen to be aware how these
>> characters are often used in CS literature.
>>
>> Perhaps s/Alice/Tabby/ and s/Bob/Fido/ or something like that ;-)?
>
>I don't know anybody named Tabby or Fido (or at least any human).
>
>Maybe Mary and John, or Linda and James.
Stevie, Jan, Pat, Chris, Randy, and Sue (if you're a Johnny Cash fan)
I have used some of those in docs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-16 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 16:17 [PATCH 0/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" examples Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] gittutorial doc: replace "alice" and "bob" with "you" and "www-data" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-16 3:43 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-16 4:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-16 21:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-17 20:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] gitcvs-migration " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-16 4:02 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] daemon doc + code comments: reword "alice" example Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] fast-import doc: change "bob" in an example to "file.txt" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" with "jdoe" and "msmith" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] pack-protocol doc: use "www-data" in place of "alice" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" examples Robert P. J. Day
2021-06-15 18:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-15 16:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 19:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-16 20:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-17 15:48 ` Phillip Susi
2021-06-17 20:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-16 1:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-16 9:30 ` Robert P. J. Day
2021-06-16 12:00 ` Jeff King
2021-06-16 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-16 21:02 ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
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