Dwimmery

Quick meaning: Dwimmery is a noun meaning (computing, humorous) A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.

Meaning

(computing, humorous) A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.

Example Sentences

The big challenge of Perl 6 is to achieve a high degree of dwimmery

I think that, as with various other parts of Perl 6, we can try to sweep all the dwimmery into one spot so that it can be easily recognized and/or avoided.

This dwimmery causes the model to show that polar melting rates have absolutely no connection to world climate in general, and to rising ocean levels in particular.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dreamware, diceware, wetware, wizard, wysiwyg, workalike.

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