TMTOWTDI

English

Alternative forms

• TIMTOWTDI

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪmˈtəʊdi/ (or as an initialism)
• Rhymes: -əʊdi

Phrase

TMTOWTDI

1. Acronym of there's more than one way to do it: a motto associated with the Perl programming language.
   • 1997, Larry Wall, Perl Resource Kit, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 586:

     So, pollute your namespace with almost two dozen subroutines that you may not even use that often, or risk a silly bug by mistyping an attribute. Your choice, TMTOWTDI after all.

See also

• there's more than one way to skin a cat
• YMMV

Further reading

• there's more than one way to do it on Wikipedia.Wikipedia