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From parsing spelled backwards, coined by the British cognitive scientist Thomas R. G. Green (born 1941) and his co-authors Rachel K. E. Bellamy and J. M. Parker in a 1987 paper: see the quotation.
First known use, by meaning
- from 1987 The cognitive process of creating a mental model of a computer program by reading the code.
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