On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:30:43 +0900 Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev > <python-dev@python.org> wrote: > > > > 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). > > > > Petr Baudis (who named "master" branch) says its origin is "master > recording". So it is unrelated to master-slave. > https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
And the origin of the English word is the latin noun "magister": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magister#Latin Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/7BDNA54THPYZHRSET7LMSLOSW7SNW2RU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
