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I'm pretty sure the word functor was used well before 1992 and Jim Coplien. Its surprisingly hard to google this word, but here is a link to its use in category theory.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/

Various wiki sites have long rants about who used functor first, but to be safe maybe don't enter the battle at all?

-Jacob Rigby

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