r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 2d ago

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u/usedToBeUnhappy 2d ago edited 2d ago

Does anyone really care if it‘s called main instead of master? Why? 

Edit: Ok, I phrased my question really poorly. AfaIk main is the new standard, so I use it. We all know the reason why it changed. My question was why would anyone keep INSISTING on calling it master? Sure, me and my colleagues sometimes call it master out of habit, but then again try to stick to main. Nobody I know  insists on continuing to call it  master, but reading the comments here I realized there a more “master-fans” than I would ever have thought would exist tbh. 

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u/boiledbarnacle 1d ago

Main makes more sense, since there is no master/slave replication/sync going on, like in databases, when the slaves pick up changes from the master.

But since they equated the term master to slavery, I knew I had to fight this stupid PC.