parm

/parm/ 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 favoured among hackers. Compare var.

[Jargon File]

Nearby terms:

Park-Miller ♦ Parlance ♦ Parlog ♦ Parlog++ ♦ parm ♦ PARMACS ♦ ParMod ♦ PARS ♦ parse

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