Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
I like parent/child. Add something? Parent adopts. Remove something? Parent abandons, leaving the process or component with trauma that will require years of therapy.
Eh, I think master is used (AFAIK) unproblematicly in other contexts like a master key, recording master, and master pattern. Converting it to “main” seems like a change or loss of meaning, but the problem may be that there is not really a consistent meaning across electronics usage to start with. I think “secondary” has some connotation of filling the same purpose or type as the primary, which doesn’t really fit for m/s usage. Master/sheep is my most similar option that keeps the “m/s”, but it feels awkward enough to draw attention to what it replaces. Could just do master (or main) and sub, where “sub” could mean substitute, subordinate, subscriber, [submissive,] etc. as needed.
Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
Master/slave terminology needs to die off. What a blatant callback to slavery times.
I like parent/child. Add something? Parent adopts. Remove something? Parent abandons, leaving the process or component with trauma that will require years of therapy.
Then you get people asking how you kill abandoned child processes
“All orphans will eventually become zombies” -My OS lecturer last year
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I quite agree. Personally I use Main/Secondary, I find it does away with the problematic terminology while needing no changes in acronyms.
I like sender/receiver
Pitcher/catcher?
No, no, perhaps not.
top/bottom
Eh, I think master is used (AFAIK) unproblematicly in other contexts like a master key, recording master, and master pattern. Converting it to “main” seems like a change or loss of meaning, but the problem may be that there is not really a consistent meaning across electronics usage to start with. I think “secondary” has some connotation of filling the same purpose or type as the primary, which doesn’t really fit for m/s usage. Master/sheep is my most similar option that keeps the “m/s”, but it feels awkward enough to draw attention to what it replaces. Could just do master (or main) and sub, where “sub” could mean substitute, subordinate, subscriber, [submissive,] etc. as needed.
leader/follower for things like Paxos and RAID arrays works okay.
Noo! It just needs to become kinky instead.
Should be using Dom/Sub amirite?
Oh, surely you must’ve meant Kermit/Miss Piggy.
Yes.
There are also gender benders… Turn male to female or female to male.
They included that already with MtF/FtM