I believe that this word was dredged up by a computer scientist perhaps in the 1980s. It does not occur in my 1980s Oxford English Dictionary. The whole business of programming jargon diffusing into popular culture needs to be investigated by some hypercaffeinated lexicographer...
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ctenophile commented on the word instantiate
I believe that this word was dredged up by a computer scientist perhaps in the 1980s. It does not occur in my 1980s Oxford English Dictionary. The whole business of programming jargon diffusing into popular culture needs to be investigated by some hypercaffeinated lexicographer...
April 8, 2010