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		f33d5173 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers and software developers lost the plot ... I had remembered it was "convert and copy", but cc was already taken by the c compiler so they shifted it down a letter. That might have been apocryphal.

classified 2 days ago [–]

Same here. But I also seem to remember claims that this isn't true…

f1shy 2 days ago | [–]

I had it learned as "data duplicator" or something like that... seems also bogus.

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