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What (who) is NIL - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
NIL; Nil (disambiguation)
Nil
·vt Will not.
II. Nil ·noun & ·adj Nothing; of no account; worthless;
- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
NIL
/nil/ 1. New Implementation of Lisp. A language intended to
be the successor of MacLisp. A large Lisp, implemented
mostly in VAX assembly language. A forerunner of {Common
LISP}.
["NIL: A Perspective", Jon L. White, MACSYMA Users' Conf Proc,
1979 ].
2. Network Implementation Language. Strom & Yemini, TJWRC,
IBM. Implementation of complex networking protocols in a
modular fashion.
["NIL: An Integrated Language and System for Distributed
Programming", R. Strom et al, SIGPLAN Notices 18(6):73-82
(June 1983) ].
3. Empty list or False. In Lisp, the empty list (or "nil
list") is used to represent the Boolean value False. This
is possible because Lisp is not typed. True is represented
by the special atom "t".
4. Spoken in reply to a question, particularly one asked using
the "-P" convention it means "No". Most hackers assume this
derives simply from LISP, but NIL meaning "no" was
well-established among radio hams decades before LISP existed.
The historical connection between early hackerdom and the ham
radio world was strong enough that this may have been an
influence.
[Jargon File ]
nil
¦ noun nothing; zero.
¦ adjective non-existent.
Origin
C19: from L., contr. of nihil 'nothing'.
Wikipedia
Nil
Nil may refer to:
Nil means champion and cloud. Very symbolic name from Égypte.
Examples of use of NIL
1. It can only be nil–nil, one–nil, two–one ... It‘s never 82–1, is it?
2. In football parlance, this was a draw of the 5–5 variety, not nil–nil.
3. The chance of my hair re–growing was basically nil.
4. But the chances of finding Madeleine here are almost nil.
5. Under a Prime Minister reduced to political impotence, nil.