Eric Raymond rejects "a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term" and cites the inventors of the thunk recalling that the term "was coined after they realized (in the wee hours after hours of discussion) that the type of an argument in Algol-60 could be figured out in advance with a little compile-time thought [...] In other words, it had 'already been thought of'; thus it was christened a thunk, which is 'the past tense of "think" at two in the morning'. See: Raymond, Eric S. (1996). Raymond, Eric S., 편집. 《The New Hacker's Dictionary》. MIT Press. 445쪽. ISBN9780262680929. 2015년 5월 25일에 확인함.
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Ingerman, P. Z. (1961년 1월 1일). “Thunks: a way of compiling procedure statements with some comments on procedure declarations”. 《Communications of the ACM》 (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)) 4 (1): 55–58. doi:10.1145/366062.366084. ISSN0001-0782.
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