On 10.03.2021 3:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Damian Shaw
<damian.peter.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
Does 'master' confuse people?
There's a general movement to replace language from common programming
practises that derive from, or are associated with, the dehumanization of
people. Such as master and slave, as well as whitelist and blacklist.
Is that *actually* the origin of the term in this context, or is it
the "master", the pristine, the original from which copies are made?
There's no "slave" branch anywhere in the git repository.
It is, actually, the ultimate origin of the term.
A more immediate origin is the master-slave architecture (the master agent initiates some operation and slave agents respond to it and/or
carry it out).
Anyway, this is yet another SJW non-issue (countries other than US don't have a modern history of slavery) so this change is a political
statement rather than has any technical merit.
I detest these changes that create churn and don't actually solve any
problems. They allow people to feel good about themselves for having
"made a change", while actually making no useful change whatsoever
(are disadvantaged people's lives going to be improved by this
rename?). What next? Are we going to crack down on any courses that
proclaim to help you to "master the Python language"? Does that, too,
have to be renamed?
ChrisA
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