- NIGHT MODE
- See PHASE (of people).
- NIL
- [from LISP terminology for "false"] No. Usage: used in reply to a
question, particularly one asked using the "-P" convention. See T.
- OBSCURE
- adj. Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to imply a
total lack of comprehensibility. "The reason for that last crash
is obscure." "FIND's command syntax is obscure." MODERATELY
OBSCURE implies that it could be figured out but probably isn't
worth the trouble.
- OPEN
- n. Abbreviation for "open (or left) parenthesis", used when
necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity. To read aloud the LISP form
(DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say: "Open def-fun foo, open
eks close, open, plus ekx one, close close." See CLOSE.
- PARSE
- [from linguistic terminology] v. 1. To determine the syntactic
structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the standard
English meaning). Example: "That was the one I saw you." "I can't
parse that."
2.More generally, to understand or comprehend.
"It's very simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the
zotz." "I can't parse that."
3. Of fish, to have to remove the
bones yourself (usually at a Chinese restaurant). "I object to
parsing fish" means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced
one is okay." A "parsed fish" has been deboned. There is some
controversy over whether "unparsed" should mean "bony", or also
mean "deboned".
- PATCH
-
- 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a
quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch
may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated
permanently into the program.
2. v. To insert a patch into a piece
of code.
- PDL
- (piddle or puddle) [acronym for Push Down List] n.
1. A LIFO queue
(stack); more loosely, any priority queue; even more loosely, any
queue.<7em> A person's pdl is the set of things he has to do in the
future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having
risen to the top of the pdl. "I'm afraid I've got real work to do,
so this'll have to be pushed way down on my pdl." See PUSH and
POP.
2. Dave Lebling (PDL@DM).
|
Delicious
Digg
reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon