RE: Weird words

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

>I worked on control system standards for a large food manufacturer. One
of
>the programmers had written a paragraph that used the word OR as a
verb, as
>in "OR the two sections of the program." He insisted that he couldn't
think
>of any better way to say it. He told me he often used AND as a verb,
too.

Is there actually a much better way to say it?  Something along the
lines of 'Perform an OR operation on the two sections of the program'
would currently work, but I'd understand OR as a verb too.

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Sarah Bouchier 
Technical Author 

exony 
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