Append vs Postfix - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between append and postfix

is that append is to add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter while postfix is to suffix.

(en verb)

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.

* prepend

(en noun)

(computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

(es)

To suffix.

(biology) To subject a sample to postfixation

(es)

Suffix.

(Parkhurst)

* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now! , §9.4

An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.

Postix'' is often used in programming or computing, while ''suffix is used elsewhere, especially in linguistics.

* postfix notation