Re: The request of words matter updated

[Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@zentaur.org>]

On 9/27/2022 3:54 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> -1 on the patch because I don't believe people who disagree with the
> change feel comfortable saying so publicly.
>
> I will also point out that tracking the terms used by the formal parameters
> in the callee's header files or documentation, as proposed upthread — is
> a clear, objective criterion; makes the terminology decisions Someone
> Else's Problem; makes the code easier to read; and involves less churn.
> Without advocating for that particular solution or considering what
> downsides it may have, I do wish to say those properties thereof seem
> desirable.
>
We've been trying to rid ourselves of these words for twenty years in 
the IT industry.  They were used because they accurately describe the 
relationship and at the dawn of Unix and the Internet, the emotional 
charge the words carry wasn't recognized.


For PTYs  I like the terms controller and subsidiary.  It seems to 
describe the relationship better than other suggestions.  The use of 
superior and inferior as otherwhere suggested strike me as eventually 
running into the same problem of being emotionally charged.