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  • 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... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


    •  View Definition: write-only language 

    write-only language

    n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is write-only code. A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve it more.