silverback

n : an adult male gorilla with gray hairs across the back

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)