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The etymology of patch harkens back to Larry Wall's UNIX patch tool for applying diffs to a source code base.
by commandersaki 1y ago
The etymology of patch harkens back to Larry Wall's UNIX patch tool for applying diffs to a source code base.
- ralph84 1y agoThe etymology of patch predates software by hundreds of years.
- antonvs 1y agohttps://www.etymonline.com/word/patch https://www.etymonline.com/word/patch > "piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14th century. > Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923 on the notion of tying together various pieces of apparatus to form a circuit.