Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology

Beth Agnew beth.agnew at senecac.on.ca
Thu Apr 10 16:02:43 MDT 2008


I confess to being one of those writers who sought alternatives to 
saying "when you kill the parent, the child dies". It may correctly 
describe what happens to a spawned process, but I just couldn't bring 
myself to be that brutal, even for clarity. :-)
--Beth

Evelyn Lee Barney wrote:
> Oh sigh -- it's been pointed out to me by a couple of you that in OOP, 
> parent/child is a relationship of inheritance, and not hierarchy.  
> Another bubble burst.
>


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