:parm: /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of {param}. This term
is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM
shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym
{arg} is favored among hackers. Compare {arg}, {var}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM
shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym
{arg} is favored among hackers. Compare {arg}, {var}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- parm /parm/ n.
Further-compressed form of param.
This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown... - arg: /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function),
used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano'... - param /p*-ram'/ n.
[common] Shorthand for
`parameter'.
See also parm; compare arg, var... - arg /arg/ n.
Abbreviation for `argument' (to a
function),
used so often as to have become a new word (like ... - var /veir/ or /var/ n.
Short for `variable'.
Compare arg,
param... - AI: /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence',
so common that the full form is almost never written... - AI /A-I/ n.
Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence',
so common that the full form is almost never written... - glass: [IBM] n. Synonym for {silicon}.
--
The AI Hackers... - stale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers...
From the same category:
- If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
E.M.... - A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping.
-- Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
-
The Angel's... - User hostile
... - Mary had a little lamb...a little beef,
a little ham... - Instruction address trace is the systems little
black book,
chock full of the addresses of all those important...
