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Re:Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio by orangethirty on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:34AM (#5201597)
App is shorthand for application.
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Re:Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio by jlgreco on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:37AM (#5201622)
Does that make /bin/ln an App?
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Re:Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio by ne0phyte on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:46AM (#5201690)
When you hear someone talking about apps/an app do you think of Apache, JBoss, KDevelop, Chromium, ... or rather Angry Birds and WhatsApp?
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Re:Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio by bitwize on Monday February 11, 2013 @12:34PM (#5201980)
"App" has been short for "application" since the DOS days (hence expressions like "killer app").
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