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jlgreco on Feb 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio

Does that make /bin/ln an App?

ne0phyte on Feb 11, 2013 [–]

When you hear someone talking about apps/an app do you think of Apache, JBoss, KDevelop, Chromium, ... or rather Angry Birds and WhatsApp?

bitwize on Feb 11, 2013 | [–]

"App" has been short for "application" since the DOS days (hence expressions like "killer app").

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