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		dsr_ on Nov 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” The once-popular HTML editor HoTMetaL was named after a different part of that process, once someone noted that the letters lined up nicely.

dredmorbius on Nov 15, 2022 [–]

See also: Moveable Type (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type>) and Wordpress (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress>).

Adobe Pagemaker was originally Aldus, named after Aldus Manutius, a renaissance printer and creator of italic type.

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