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Is there a purely technical term for 'monkey patching'

6 frandroid 2 5/8/2025, 5:39:27 PM softwareengineering.stackexchange.com ↗

Comments (2)

frandroid · 8h ago

On the origins of the term "monkey patching"

zahlman · 8h ago

Thanks for sharing. I hadn't expected there to be any particularly interesting etymology at all, but there is. (I also hadn't considered that anyone might find the term offensive, but it did motivate the Q&A, so.)