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i have a deep and irrational hatred for the fact that some people call computer programs "apps" now of days
"Some people"? The operating systems themselves call them apps now.
And it's really not that unreasonable. What the user thinks of as an app could be more than 1 program. It makes sense to put an abstraction between users and programs because lots of sophisticated software use separate programs that the end user doesn't care about, just the whole.
I don't think anyone's saying we should only refer to each individual executable file. Just that 'apps' arbitrarily replaced the word 'program' with absolutely no change in definition to make it sound New and Marketable tm.
What I call an app is a little thing I eat before a big thing.
I regret to inform you it's joever
Rejoice, your paint guns are now all howitzers!
Thankfully the dictionaries get a little more specific. I do want an artillery capable paint gun though, that sounds rad
I presented the above as a joke and I had faith that the definition of a howitzer wasn't that vague to begin with.
gottem 😎
I used to think howitzer was a specific model or even brand of artillery piece, like the Gucci bag of artillery.
The Task Manager in Windows always had an "Applications" tab and a "Processes" tab, going back to Windows 98 at least. "Programs" was always too broad and restricted to being colloquial; the specific word was either application or executable.
What's worth ranting about is whether people have stopped understanding "App" as short for something.
The l33t w4r3z d00dz were calling applications 'appz' since at least the '90s. Then there was that brief period where Apple tried to claim "app store" was short for "apple store" so no one else could say it..
Actually the proper nomenclature of the time was 'warez'.
not enough ascii in this comment tbh
markdown killed the ascii star
Sorry, it's a regional dialect.
“What region?”
“…Usenet.”
“I…RC.”
That is our word and you have no right to use it
When I was a kid, I thought it was pronounced WHERE-AZ.
I'm only surprised they didn't succeed.
It's software, and I will not change.
"Some people" includes almost all devs who actually make the ~apps~ ~applications~ programs though.
Many of the projects I work on use app to refer to the main object or entrypoint.
Same!