On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:36:40 -0500, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> 
>> I think that we have had "cut and paste" since at least the 1940's as it was a
>> printing term used in Phototypesetting. You would literally cut the text off a
>> page then paste it onto another page. I remember using hot wax for the pasting
>> in the 70's.
>
>Sooo... what was the justification for Yank and Kill? Just confusing 
>terms to keep the neophytes away, then?

I don't know but Goggle says
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/calc_17.html

I'm not and never have been a programmer. Every line's a struggle :(
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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