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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/ap/ , n. Short for application program , as opposed to a systems program.
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Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for
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their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of
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the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term
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excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a
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user would consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an app is often a
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self-contained environment for performing some well-defined task such as
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word processing ; hackers tend to prefer more general-purpose tools.) See
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killer app ; oppose tool , operating system.
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