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Ah, the good old days of browsing wap sites to download "apps". Installing some of them only to find that my budget phone doesn't support the j2me profile requi

by devsda 10mo ago

Ah, the good old days of browsing wap sites to download "apps". Installing some of them only to find that my budget phone doesn't support the j2me profile required to run them. The java ecosystem of those days had similar terms like the servlet (still surviving), applet & midlet. Is there a significance of the suffix "let" or somebody thought let's add "let" to everything.

kryptiskt 10mo ago
-let is a diminutive, signifying something small. Like in piglet or booklet.
- devsda 10mo ago
  Oh, TIL! Thank you.
- Pet_Ant 10mo ago
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-let https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-let > From Middle English -let, -elet, from Old French -elet, a double diminutive from Old French -el + -et.