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OMS:
Are you looking for a problem where one doesn't exist ?
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OMS
It looks like enough people consider it to be a problem that people are doing something about it.
When writing software, I prefer terms such as manager-worker. This conveys the same meaning without the historical baggage and potential to offend.
Philip Oakley:
Isn't that assertion just ignoring a hazard, without reasonable adaption, in the hope that nobody of alleged importance notices?
Not really, Phil - if people are determined enough to be offended, then they will be. For the rest of us, it's pretty easy to see the term without immediate offense taken, because none was intended.
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OMS
When writing software, I prefer terms such as manager-worker. This conveys the same meaning without the historical baggage and potential to offend.
Really ? - doesn't it make all sorts of assumptions about managers and workers and who is who and what value each has ?
Regards
OMS
OMS:Philip Oakley:
Isn't that assertion just ignoring a hazard, without reasonable adaption, in the hope that nobody of alleged importance notices?
Not really, Phil - if people are determined enough to be offended, then they will be. For the rest of us, it's pretty easy to see the term without immediate offense taken, because none was intended.
davidwalker2:
As for master/slave, I agree with OMS, if people want to see offence they will, I do not find it offensive.
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