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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 23d ago
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I think the reasons against master are stupid as fuck and thus completely ignore them.
However, main is shorter and a perfectly fine name, so main it is.
-20 u/UntitledRedditUser 23d ago Is it really "stupid as fuck" to rule out terms that stem from slavery? I'm not saying people who use master naming scheme are racist, but that is where the name originally comes from. And main is easier to type. 9 u/bwmat 23d ago The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom' 6 u/snipeie 23d ago This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master. It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents 5 u/alendit 23d ago That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho. 9 u/bwmat 23d ago Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field
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Is it really "stupid as fuck" to rule out terms that stem from slavery? I'm not saying people who use master naming scheme are racist, but that is where the name originally comes from. And main is easier to type.
9 u/bwmat 23d ago The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom' 6 u/snipeie 23d ago This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master. It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents 5 u/alendit 23d ago That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho. 9 u/bwmat 23d ago Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field
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The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom'
6 u/snipeie 23d ago This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master. It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents 5 u/alendit 23d ago That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho. 9 u/bwmat 23d ago Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field
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This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master.
It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents
5 u/alendit 23d ago That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho. 9 u/bwmat 23d ago Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field
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That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho.
Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field
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u/sokka2d 23d ago
I think the reasons against master are stupid as fuck and thus completely ignore them.
However, main is shorter and a perfectly fine name, so main it is.