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When Software Offends

Posted by samzenpus on from the ruffling-feathers dept.

ndogg writes "The open source Python projects Pantyshot and Upskirt have caused quite a stir within the Python community, and catalyzed the leaving of one of their developers (a woman whose native language is not English.) The original developer, Frank Smit, has renamed Pantyshot to Misaka, but that too has suspect etymology, as Violet Blue points out."

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  1. Oh come on by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: -1, Troll

    For Christ's sake it's a name! Who cares about the author's stupid prOn tastes?

    And here's the flamebait part: If you use a more mature language than Python (and it's users silly names won't occur and as an additional benefit your programs will run faster. So if e.g. you want to process real pantyshots pixel for pixel I'd suggest using C. If you need to process pantyshots in parallel and with high safety and reliability demands (after all, reliable delivery of prOn is essential for internet economy), Haskell or Ada might also be good choices!