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From: entropy@pawl.rpi.edu (Born of the Cuisenaire Rods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why is it called a 'cookie'?
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.010310.20790@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 01:03:10 GMT
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	In the documentation for PCC, Steve Johnson writes:

	"_Codgen takes ... a second argument that, for
socio-historical reasons is called a _cookie_.  The cookie describes a
set of goals that would be acceptable for the code generation."

	Why 'cookie'?

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