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Reminds me of how everything on a computer used to be a "program", but now they're all just "apps"
I will die on the hill of calling them computer programs.
Same. It's like the one thing where I am a total boomer on
My pet theory is that Apple started to use that term because "App" can also be short for "Apple".
I buy it
It just works
What's a computer?