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1. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016) |
DWIM
Do What I Mean (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)
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2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
DWIM
/dwim/
[acronym, ?Do What I Mean?]
1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when
bogus input was provided.
2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this
feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy.
3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, esp. when one
senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese).
4. Of a person, someone whose directions are incomprehensible and vague,
but who nevertheless has the expectation that you will solve the problem
using the specific method he/she has in mind.
Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling
errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make
hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some
victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for ?Damn Warren?s
Infernal Machine!'.
In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command
interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete
*$ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by
appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any
backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there
weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported *$ not found,
assuming you meant 'delete *'. It then started to delete all the files on
the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after
only a half dozen or so files were lost.
The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to
Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation,
and then type delete *$ twice.
DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program;
it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal
computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue,
there were also jokes about DWIMC (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related
term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right
Thing.
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
DWIM
/dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to
guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when
bogus input was provided.
2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish
this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See
hairy.
3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer,
especially when one senses one might be tripping over
legalisms (see legalese).
Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and
spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his
style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if
they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus
claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal
Machine!'.
In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the
command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another
hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space.
(The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the
original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup
files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that
there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully
reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It
then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker
managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a
half dozen or so files were lost.
The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted
to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in
front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice.
DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a
complex program; it is also occasionally described as the
single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when
proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also
jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related
term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing);
see Right Thing.
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