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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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Are "fault" and "default" etymologically related?
The logic behind the use of "default value" in software is a bit twisted. It is based on the programmer looking at the user's actions entirely from computer's point of view. For example, by pressing C …
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Why is an application called an application?
The first time I met the term application as a name for a computer program, it was not a term in its own right yet, but it was almost always used in combination with the name of a software development …
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