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This is really, "what techs call it" and "what non-techs call it".
As a tech, I usually know what someone means when they "app".
It's "glitch" that drives me mad though. Glitch sounds like a ghost caused the error one tine only, versus some lazy coder.
To be fair i would consider a glitch to be closer to a ghost causing it than a lazy developer.
I consider a "bug" to be something caused by the code (bad error handling, bad logic, etc) and a "glitch" to be something more random or environmental
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I very much hate the word app. That's probably my biggest boomer trait.
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The word app has been around forever, first appearing in the 1970s (according to some dictionaries I just googled). Pendulum swung towards “programs” and we have since swung back to the correct term.
I remember "killer app" being a phrase I regularly heard in the 90's.
But also, you're right. Here's an article from 1994 describing Visicalc as a "Killer App" from the late 1970's, that prompted people to buy personal computers.
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