T /T/
1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used
in reply to a question (particularly one asked using The -P convention). In LISP
things. Some Lisp hackers use `T' and `NIL' instead of `Yes' and
`No' almost reflexively. This sometimes causes misunderstandings.
When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether a hacker wants
coffee, he may absently respond `T', meaning that he wants coffee;
but of course he will be brought a cup of tea instead.
Fortunately, most hackers (particularly those who frequent Chinese
restaurants) like tea at least as well as coffee -- so it is not
that big a problem. 2. See time T (also
tee. 5. A dialect of LISP
developed at Yale. (There is an intended allusion to NIL, "New
Implementation of Lisp", another dialect of Lisp developed for the
VAX)
1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used
in reply to a question (particularly one asked using The -P convention). In LISP
things. Some Lisp hackers use `T' and `NIL' instead of `Yes' and
`No' almost reflexively. This sometimes causes misunderstandings.
When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether a hacker wants
coffee, he may absently respond `T', meaning that he wants coffee;
but of course he will be brought a cup of tea instead.
Fortunately, most hackers (particularly those who frequent Chinese
restaurants) like tea at least as well as coffee -- so it is not
that big a problem. 2. See time T (also
tee. 5. A dialect of LISP
developed at Yale. (There is an intended allusion to NIL, "New
Implementation of Lisp", another dialect of Lisp developed for the
VAX)
Related:
- T: /T/ 1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used in
reply to a question (particularly one asked using {The `-P'
convention}).
In LISP, the constant T means `true', among other things.... - NIL: /nil/ No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one
asked using the `-P' convention.
Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for `false' (see also {T}), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP.... - NIL /nil/
No. Used in reply to a question, particularly
one asked using the `-P' convention.
Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for `false' (see also T), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP.... - user n.
1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer,
using it as a means rather than an end.
Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user.... - The `-P' convention: --------------------- Turning a word into a
question by appending the syllable `P'
from the LISP convention of appending the letter `P' to denote a predicate (a boolean-valued function).... - Read my Lisp...no new syntax. (nil)
- prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio... - flavor: n. 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two
flavors.
These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones.... - LISP hackers are thweet.
