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Inclusive Programming Language

In recent months many Open Source projects and various different companies have encouraged their software engineers to use inclusive terminology in code and documentation. Here’s a short list:

Inclusive Coding Terms

Proposed alternatives for master/slave:

Proposed alternatives for blacklist/whitelist:

Proposed alternatives for man hours/days:

Proposed alternatives for gendered pronouns (he/she, his/her):

Proposed alternatives for sanity check:

Proposed alternatives for dummy value/data:

Proposed alternative for indentation with spaces: