silver spoon

n : inherited wealth; "he was born with a silver spoon in his

mouth"

Silver Book

Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual

and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the

widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978

(ISBN 0-387-90144-2).

See also {book titles}, {Pascal}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1996-12-03)