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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>parm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html" title="Parkinson's Law of Data"/><link rel="next" href="parse.html" title="parse"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">parm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parse.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="parm"/><dt xmlns="" id="parm"><b>parm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/parm/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Further-compressed form of <a href="param.html"><i class="glossterm">param</i></a>. This term
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is an <i class="wordasword">IBMism</i>, and written use is almost unknown
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outside IBM shops; spoken <span class="pronunciation">/parm/</span>
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is more widely distributed, but the synonym <a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a> is
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favored among hackers. Compare <a href="../A/arg.html"><i class="glossterm">arg</i></a>,
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<a href="../V/var.html"><i class="glossterm">var</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="parse.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Parkinson's Law of Data </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> parse</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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