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TMTOWTDI en · X

Pronunciation

  • /tɪmˈtəʊdi/

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of there's more than one way to do it, a motto associated with the Perl programming language.
    • So, pollute your namespace with almost two dozen subroutines that you may not even use that often, or risk a silly bug by mistyping an attribute. Your choice, TMTOWTDI after all. 1997, Larry Wall, Perl Resource Kit, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 586:

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Antonyms

TOOWTDI · TIOOWTDI

Relateds

YMMV · there's more than one way to skin a cat