RE: Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Ev wrote:
 
> I have to say this [parent/child] is the only alternative I've heard that I thought
> worked. Like others on this list, I felt stuck with master/slave for 
> clarity reasons. However, as parent/child is a common term in 
> object-oriented programming, I bet this could catch on easily enough.
 
 
But in object-oriented programming, the parent/child relationship generally
refers to the inheritance of characteristics (e.g. attributes, properties) and
behaviors (e.g. methods, features) or to the creation and destruction of
child object instances by a parent. Neither of these is analogous to the 
controller/controllee relationship that is expressed by master/slave. 
 
What we're talking about with master/slave is dominance and submission, 
so maybe we should borrow the pop terminology of S&M and use top/bottom,
although that also implies a physical, positional relationship that may be 
misleading. Or since top/bottom is already used by physicists to classify 
quarks, maybe we should borrow one of their other quark pairings: up/down 
or charmed/strange. 
FR
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