RE: Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Andrew Warren wrote:
 
> Excerpted from what I wrote the last time this subject came 
> up on the list...
> 
>       Leader     Follower
>       Primary    Secondary
>       Host       Guest
>       Server     Client
>       First      Second
>       Central    Peripheral
>       Major      Minor
>       Principal  Additional
>       Main       Subsidiary
>       Superior   Subordinate
>       Husband    Wife

Oops, you seem to have reversed the last pair. ;-)

That aside, none of these alternatives convey the same meaning or are as
clear as master-slave. Eschew obfuscation. 

IMHO, of course. But I never lie and I'm always right.

Richard


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