On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:31 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Terry sez: > >> A real programmer would have called it an "undocumented feature". > > Back in the mid 1980s, at the Space Astronomy Lab, University of > Wisconsin, where I worked as a ground support computer programmer, we > would just say: Everything is nominal.
LOL! We engineers considered specifications with the trailer ".nom" to be hogwash. "In name only." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nominal?s=t T
