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The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature
- lemonade 13y agoI agree that the term is bad taste and not really a good metaphor anyway. Slavery was about people trading and legally owning other people, and nowadays refers to a certain type of adult relationship. Both of them do not adequately describe what compsci master-slave aims to convey - e.g. an asymetric cloning strategy from an original. I'd be happy for the term to be scrapped.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoI think "slavery is..." would be more accurate, given it's ongoing existence on the planet.