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Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
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In pair programming, what is each role named, and why?
The driver (or less commonly pilot) has hands on with the keyboard and is right there, banging out the code.
The navigator (or observer, or less commonly co-driver or co-pilot) is sitting alongside w …
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Why is XML not called EML?
From the book Computers & Society
The X in XML
"XML is both a boon and a threat to the web dream."
The X in XML stands for eXtensible.
This signifies that XML is open. It is
open in …
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Etymology of "String"
The earliest reference I could find in computing is from March 1963's METEOR: A LISP Interpreter for String Transformations by Daniel G. Bobrow at MIT's AI Labs.
The Oxford English Dictionary has an …
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