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Is there truth to that last one? I always assumed cat was short for concatenate and my brief googling appears to confirm that. Would love to read more on this i
by liquidise 8y ago
Is there truth to that last one? I always assumed cat was short for concatenate and my brief googling appears to confirm that. Would love to read more on this if someone has a reference to cat_barf
- copperx 8y agoCat is for catenate. Later the word became concatenate.
- OJFord 8y agoIt appears not: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=concatenate%2Ccatenate&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=6&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=concatenate%2C... My understanding is that when you catenate A and B you concatenate A with B. That is, the catenation of A and B is AB, but the concatenation of A and B is A (catenated with what - we haven't said) and B (ditto). Of course this is basically trivia and the word that's used is concatenate.
- torstenvl 8y agoNo. I was joking. :-P