Posted by: Administrator
on February 14, 2004 03:38 AM
In view of the unfortunate attitude of a small number of people, it might be best to make a symlink from "man" to "woman", or re-name the command "person", or something entirely neutral. You can never be too careful.....
Seriously though, a good article, and man pages will be around for a long time yet. It was the correct thing to do 1970-ish, and is still useful. It may well be an area where non-programmers who want to contribute can do so, as a lot of the man pages could do with expansion or clarification. The software advances, but the documentation tends to lag behind.
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Political correctness?
Posted by: Administrator on February 14, 2004 03:38 AMSeriously though, a good article, and man pages will be around for a long time yet. It was the correct thing to do 1970-ish, and is still useful. It may well be an area where non-programmers who want to contribute can do so, as a lot of the man pages could do with expansion or clarification. The software advances, but the documentation tends to lag behind.
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