May 15, 2003

prettyprint

/prit´ee·print/ v.

(alt.: pretty-print)

1. To generate ‘pretty’ human-readable output from a hairy internal representation; esp. used for the process of grinding (sense 1) program code, and most esp. for LISP code.

2. To format in some particularly slick and nontrivial way.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:34 AM

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