Why do we “launch” programs?
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For the majority of Computing history the term was “execute” or “run”.
Technically neither of these are accurate any more, since modern “programs” are not just blocks of machine code, and often contain extra data and resources processed by the OS. Starting them is much more complex than just loading and branching into the machine code.
“Launch” seems to have been coined to represent this more complex process, although I’m not sure by whom.
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