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The script is compiled to a program which is then executed by the OS.
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The app is appified to an app which is then apped by the app.
Damnit.
Why use many word?
Who has ever called a batch file an app
My end users
Powershell is a fortnite expansion right?
What I hate even more, is that the morons who can't read more than two syllables decided to shorten "application" to "app", but now I only ever hear people reading that as "ay pee pee"! What was the fucking point?
I've literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)
Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.
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I mean, I'm pretty sure this is extremely widespread in China, so I'd say it's more cultural than anything else. In fact, since there are so many Chinese, that probably means more people call it A.P.P. than app. But I honestly have no clue, and it doesn't matter to me either way. Words change. It's nothing to get bent out of shape about.
Chinese phonology doesn't allow for the pronunciation of "app", for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as "APP", and pronouncing it accordingly. It's kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word "yingyong" is only two syllables. "APP" just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.
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I hate that this meme never explains what application meant 'back then'
I get that it's a problem now, but if it had a clear enough definition back then, maybe this couldn't have occurred the way it did?
I always understood "application" like a gadget in the software world that just resolved one specific problem, and had that own definition till got distorted
I remember "killer app" being a phrase I regularly heard in the 90's.
But also, you're right. Here's an article from 1994 describing Visicalc as a "Killer App" from the late 1970's, that prompted people to buy personal computers.