I see so many topics being discussed in this thread and I literary got lost somewhere , but was just thinking can we call it Parent -Child architecture, m sure no one will raise an objection there.
Although, looking at comments above I still feel it would be a bigger effort to convince everyone than making a change. ;) On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, 17:21 Mark H. Wood, <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:22:49AM -0400, j.s. wrote: > > On 6/18/20 9:50 PM, Rahul Goswami wrote: > > > So +1 on "slave" being the problematic term IMO, not "master". > > > > but you cannot have a master without a slave, n'est-ce pas? > > Well, yes. In education: Master of Science, Arts, etc. In law: > Special Master (basically a judge's delegate). See also "magistrate." > None of these has any connotation of the ownership of one person by > another. > > (It's a one-way relationship: there is no slavery without mastery, > but there are other kinds of mastery.) > > But this is an emotional issue, not a logical one. If doing X makes > people angry, and we don't want to make those people angry, then > perhaps we should not do X. > > > i think it is better to use the metaphor of copying rather than one of > > hierarchy. language has so many (unintended) consequences ... > > Sensible. > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu >
