• Derpgon@programming.dev
      246·
      1日前

      Why not change “walkie talkie” to “radio phone”? It is so much cleaner.

      Because change for the sake of change always brings more work than what it saves.

      Why change something that works and everyone recognizes it? Of course, if this debate was there when the standard was created…

    • Lembot_0004@discuss.online
      126·
      1日前

      Because it is a historically settled down terminology that everyone understands and there is no adequate reason to change it.

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
        83·
        1日前

        everyone understands

        no, new people learn git every day.

        ‘main’ is much clearer. It’s maybe not the same readability gain as ‘blocklist/allowlist’ over ‘blacklist/whitelist’, but it’s still there.