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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 22 days ago

Software Terminology

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 22 days ago
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    22 days ago

    Then: Books, Movies, Videos, Blogs, Articles Now: C O N T E N T

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      Man, I hate the word content.

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        I’m content with it

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    I fought hard against that for years. I still only use ‘app’ for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn’t technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.

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      Language evolves. Why is a computer program not an “app(lication)” exactly?

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        It isn’t technically wrong

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          Yeah, I thought I made that clear. I just don’t like it.

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        Everyone that goes " thats fire yo!" I spritz with a spraybottle.

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          As is your right and duty.

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        Oh, it is. It is… Sigh.

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      Windows is the first thing I can think of that used the word “application” in that way, I think even back before Windows could be considered an OS (and had a dependency on MS-DOS). Back then, the Windows API referred to the Application Programming Interface.

      Here’s a Windows 3.1 programming guide from 1992 that freely refers to programs as applications:

      Common dialog boxes make it easier for you to develop applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system. A common dialog box is a dialog box that an application displays by calling a single function rather than by creating a dialog box procedure and a resource file containing a dialog box template.

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        I don’t have a single problem with the word “application”

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