Wimp
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Wimp may refer to:
- A physical or emotional weakling. This informal term was the inspiration for:
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- the cartoon character J. Wellington Wimpy (of the Popeye series)
- the radio character Wallace Wimple (of the Fibber McGee and Molly show).
- the phrase Mush from the Wimp
- Saint Veep, a Cornish saint
WIMP, as an acronym, may refer to:
- Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical class of matter.
- The "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm, or "windows, icons, mice and pointers". See WIMP (computing).
- A combination of the following software: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft IIS, MySQL, PHP. For related sets of software, see LAMP (software bundle).
- Women-Influenced Male Person, a term coined by Rush Limbaugh (see Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show).
- 'Why Isn't Mary Programming?', a management principle illustrating a common attitude managers have towards programmers during the Requirements analysis or Software architecture phase of a software development project. Programmers can be seen to be less productive during this stage because they spend less time writing code and more time researching and planning.
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