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" <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] >> >> 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:[email protected] > > 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
