PANGLOSS PARITY


Meaning of PANGLOSS PARITY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

[from Dr. Pangloss, the eternal optimist in Voltaire's "Candide"] In corporate DP shops, a common condition of severe but equally shared lossage resulting from the theory that as long as everyone in the organization has the exactly the same model of obsolete computer, everything will be fine.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.