Halt & Catch Fire

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(12-06-2014 05:30 PM)walter b Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 03:48 PM)Bill Zimmerly Wrote:  EPI - Execute Programmer Immediate

I'd vote for Execute Programmer Immediately here. Grammar is important in programming languages.

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The 6502 microprocessor had an immediate addressing mode:

Immediate Addressing
--------------------

The value given is a number to be used immediately by the
instruction. For example, LDA #$99 loads the value $99 into the
accumulator.

LDA # was read "load immediate", if I am not wrong. "Load immediately" would not make sense here. Perhaps that's same case in EPI.

About grammar, sometimes an adverb has the same form of the corresponding adjective (this happens also in Portuguese). Not the case of immediate, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_adverb

Gerson.