meaning of optimism

1. The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
2. A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.
3. optimism What a programmer is full of after fixing the last bug and just before actually discovering the *next* last bug. Fred Brookss book "The Mythical Man-Month" contains the following paragraph that describes this extremely well. All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy god-mothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug. ". See also Lubarskys Law of Cybernetic Entomology. [Jargon File] optimize optimisation option command line option OPTRAN Specification language for attributed tree transformation writetn by R. Wilhelm, U Saarlandes in the early 1980s. ["POPSY and OPTRAN Manual", ESPRIT PROSPECTRA Project Item S. 1. 6-R. 3. 0, U Saarlandes Mar 1986]. Opus product> A Honeywell operating system promised as a sop to customers after canning Multics in 1985. Opus was to provide everything Multics had and more, plus total compatibility with the Level 6/DPS6 operating system. "Opus" was a code name, the system was officially named VS3 short for HVS R3 or Honeywell Virtual System Release Three. It was to run on the DPS6-plus hardware known internally as the MRX and HRX, and be all things to all people. The hardware was a dud though it did run the native DPS6 software just fine, and the goal was, shall we say, ambitious. The effort was cancelled by Bull in 1987, in favor of another project going on in France. OR The Boolean function which is true if any of its arguments are true. Its truth table is: A | B | A OR B --+---+--------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | T
4. a general disposition to expect the best in all things

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