Okay, you can have "to be done.". I have to add "to be determined" to my "to be developed" which is in all the military planning manuals I have (and have read). I can't seem to find "to be done" as a common initialism, even on a routine internet search, but if you've used it then it must be ok ;-)
Yep, silly topic to continue. Hey, how 'bout those KX3s?! Bill WK6A Sent from my iPhone On May 25, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Phil Hystad <phys...@mac.com> wrote: > A silly thing to debate -- but, it has always meant "To Be Done". In fact, I > have never known any other definition in the world of computer programming > where it is often used as a comment to a section of code. So, at least for > programming, To Be Done is it. Always has been since I started programming > in 1965 (and, I am still programming and I still put TBD in code comments > every now and then). > > But, a slight comment nod to Ron (AC7AC). I think that TBD is more > accurately called an "initialism" and not an acronym. An acronym is a word > formed by letters of a phrase or sentence such as sonar or radar. Thus, an > acronym can be pronounced and used as a word. An initialism is a set of > letters that are usually not pronounced or they receive a pronunciation from > common practice. For example, CEO, HTML, and SQL are all initialisms. And, > SQL has a common practice of pronunciation of Sequel although technically > that is not correct and I believe the SQL standard stipulates this. Sequel > is actually the name of a similar language developed by IBM that preceded SQL. > > Enough debate there is a CW contest to going on. > > 73, phil, K7PEH > > > On May 25, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Bill Tubbs wrote: > >> Since I was a kid in the 60s TBD has meant "To Be Developed", particularly >> in the military. Never heard it as "to be done" but I suppose there are >> always regional differences. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On May 25, 2012, at 1:40 PM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: >> >>> Actually, I have for half a century known TBD to be an acronym for "To Be >>> Done". In this case the development of the code is likely complete. What >>> remains to be done is to integrate it with the rest of the KX3 code, test >>> and debug any unintended interactions. >>> >>> 73, Ron AC7AC >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> >>> TBD...acronym from "to be deremined" I think, check if you have latest >>> firmware loaded on it >>> >>> >>> VE3GNO Daniel >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
