print: v. To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says
that a program "printed a message", he means this; if he refers to
printing a file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of
writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and
`printout', on the other hand, always refer to the latter). This
very common term is likely a holdover from the days when printing
terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language
constructs like C's printf(3). See senses 1 and 2 of tty.
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